Chapter 5. An Introduction to the Sample Application

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the sample application used as an example in Chapters 69. This chapter sets the context and high-level requirements for the application and contains information commonly found in a Vision document. Development of a Vision document is outside the scope of the J2EE Developer Roadmap. However, the document itself is an input artifact to a number of activities in the Requirements discipline (see Chapter 6, Requirements).

Application Overview

Our sample application is an online auction. An online auction is a subcategory of a larger family of enterprise applications called e-commerce systems. An e-commerce system enables buyers and suppliers of products ...

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