Chapter 13. Case Study Summary

The auction system is made up of several interrelated parts. When going over the code, the places where SOAP provides the communication mechanism do not always stand out and shout “This is SOAP!!!” After going over the case study, we know that objects communicate through several different technologies:

  • Java virtual machine

  • SOAP

  • COM

  • The .NET Universal Run Time (URT)

The auction application itself is composed of several subsystems:

  • Customer sign-up

  • Seller sign-up

  • Customer interface (the excuse to use Apache SOAP)

  • Category editor

  • Item editor

  • Auction Web service

  • Auction site

The logical view of the application contains four areas of functionality:

  1. Client management (sellers and buyers). Implementation is covered in Chapter 10.

  2. Category ...

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