Auction Example Horizontal Services

Saying that every application requires the same types of horizontal services sometimes is too much of a generalization. However, you can usually find the same common services in most enterprise applications. For our auction site, we will cover the following horizontal services:

  • Logging service

  • E-mail support

Although we could have made a case for the properties service, we chose to implement the properties using the bean components and their respective JNDI environments. We don’t have a great deal of configuration or property information and, therefore, didn’t feel the need for an entire service related to obtaining property information. This is sometimes the case with horizontal services. You must evaluate ...

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