A REAL-TIME AUCTION SYSTEM OVER THE WWW

This paper presents an electronic auction system as a case study of a distributed computing application using the Java language and the Voyager distributed programming platform. It stresses the importance of state-of-the-art WWW development tools that address the run-to-the-market need of electronic commerce applications. Conceptual simplicity and efficient design and implementation are the major advantages from the adoption of a platform where object mobility and persistence are transparently available.