Chapter 21. Stock Trading Application—EJB

By Mark Wutka

In This Chapter

Although you often see example applications that retrieve stock quotes, you don't often see examples that trade stocks. In a trading application, users may submit “put” orders, which mean that the user wants to sell stock. Users can also submit “buy” orders, which mean they want to buy stock. The trading system matches put and buy requests and registers them as successful trades. This chapter presents an example of such an application.

Like many Web services, the trading application consists mostly of components ...

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