Business Challenge

In today's Business environment, IS Australia's customers were increasingly feeling the need for becoming e-enabled. A key requirement was to develop a real-time auction system for New Zealand Toyota, enabling them to streamline their auction process - taking it from the physical world to an online world. From a technical standpoint, the system was to be developed using a J2EE architecture and business rules were to be defined in the session beans of the application server. The data is retrieved via a combination of entity bean methods and direct access to the database. A message server was required for publish/subscribe purposes. The clients bidding on the auction will subscribe and the server will publish bids and lot data dynamically.

"From a technology standpoint, the main problem we faced was the use of an applet in a browser. As many corporate clients are connecting from behind firewalls and proxies, we needed to specify the proxy in the client connection and tunnel the JMS messages through HTTP/HTTPS," says Jonathon Ross, Project Manager at IS Australia. "We needed a message server where the client connection properties can be dynamically configured."