Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
Abstract
This is an electronic version of the paper presented at the WebNet 2001 World Conference on the WWW and Internet, held in Orlando on 2001The rapid introduction of the Internet technologies in the financial sector is
leading to profound changes affecting both financial service companies and private
investors. Web-based technologies have transfigured our concept of information
availability, and are transforming the way customers and service providers communicate
and relate to each other as well, posing new organizational and computational challenges. A
new generation of financial applications is needed that a) help users in accessing the right
information in an understandable form, despite the size and complexity of information
sources, b) are readily available from handy standard connection points, c) do not impose
heavy or too restrictive platform requirements on the user, and d) assure transparent, reliable
and secure transactions for the client. In this paper we describe e-Portfolio, a Java-based
financial application that gives assistance in the choice of an optimal investment strategy
according to an investor's profile. e-Portfolio’s highly portable, interoperable, and reusable
components result in a very flexible architecture that can be accommodated to different
business settings and requirements