Rationale and Assumptions

The online banking example was used as the central project throughout this book. Although we considered various other possibilities, we felt this project to be most appropriate. Understanding the domain is half the battle, and the preva lence of online banking makes it much more likely that readers would already be familiar with what the case study is all about.

Obviously, it is beyond the scope of this book to implement a full and complete online banking system. As such, various simplifications and constraints have had to be necessarily imposed. The primary intent of this project is to illustrate the concepts related to the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and provide you with a hands-on learning resource. ...

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