Three integration methods for a component-based netpay vendor system

  • Authors:
  • Xiaoling Dai;John Grundy

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • CIS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Computational and Information Science
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We have developed NetPay, a micro-payment protocol characterized by off-line processing, customer anonymity and relatively high performance and security using one-way hashing functions for encryption. In our NetPay prototypes we have designed and implemented two kinds of NetPay vendor systems which use thin-client user interfaces, a component-based server-side infrastructure and CORBA remote objects for inter-system communications. We describe three alternative ways to integrate NetPay interface facilities into these existing E-Journal web applications. We describe the relative strengths and weaknesses with each approach and our experiences building prototypes of them.