Mukul Sood

The JECF provides services (application programmer interfaces) on top of Java for creating payment and financial applications. The current version (beta release 0.8) provides services such as graphical user interface, secure encrypted database, capability mechanism, access to cryptography, applets and infrastructure for purchasing.JECF has a layered architecture; each layer has predefined responsibilities and uses the services of the layer below it. The layers (see Figure 1) are: Merchant Applet layer uses Java applets to present an interface, e.g., a shopping mall, store front, etc. These applets do not require a long-term customer-to-merchant relationship; they are appropriate for implementing short-term customer relationships such as the shopping experience. The Cassette layer implements long-term customer relationships such as credit cards, home banking and broker... (more)