4.9. Lessons Learned

HomeSide has applied valuable lessons learned during its initial foray into Web commerce by redesigning the business process to make online home mortgage lending more attractive to consumers. In so doing, it has adopted a strategy to maximize reuse of core business logic, while building a Web-commerce infrastructure that emphasizes flexibility, scalability, and adherence to open standards.

Specifically, HomeSide has made extensive use of J2EE technologies to design an application that is modular and easy to maintain. A master servlet coordinates the standard workflows used for data entry during the initial loan approval step, allowing this process to be maintained without affecting other back-end functions. Interaction between ...

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