The J2EE™ Tutorial Second Edition

Chapter 36. The Duke's Bank Application

This chapter describes the Duke's Bank application, an online banking application. Duke's Bank has two clients: an application client used by administrators to manage customers and accounts, and a Web client used by customers to access account histories and perform transactions. The clients access the customer, account, and transaction information maintained in a database through enterprise beans. The Duke's Bank application demonstrates the way that many of the component technologies presented in this tutorial—enterprise beans, application clients, and Web components—are applied to provide a simple but functional application.

Figure 36-1 gives a high-level view of how the components interact. This chapter ...