- Online Auction System
- Similar to systems like eBay
- Accessed over the Internet
- C++ server
- Maintains all state information
- Uses a persistent object infrastructure
- C++ command-line interface
- Applet-based user interface
- Swing-based, event driven
- User interface and server communicate using CORBA
- CORBA allows the Java objects in the UI to communicate directly with the C++ objects in the server
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