Chapter 6. Codexa: Building a Big Bang Architecture with Brokat's GemStore J2EE Server

Codexa Corporation is an Internet information service provider whose mission is to solve the information overload experienced by professionals in a wide range of markets including finance, business, government, and academia. Codexa aims first to help financial professionals synthesize the avalanche of financial information available through any digital information source, including the Internet, e-mails, wire services, market data feeds, and so forth. To do this, the company has built an infrastructure based on the J2EE platform that is architected to manage explosive growth in usage, information volume, and variety of applications. The J2EE platform's layered, distributed architecture is crucial to the performance, scaling, and reliability of Codexa's always-on, always-growing solution.