Distributed component software security issues on deploying a secure electronic marketplace

摘要

A secure electronic marketplace involves a significant number of real-time transactions between remote systems, either for commercial or for authentication purposes. The underlying infrastructure of choice to support these transactions seems to be a distributed component architecture. Distributed component software (DCS) is the natural convergence of client-server network computing and object oriented technology in a mix providing reusability, scalability and maintainability for software constructs. The 3 major models in the distributed component software industry are OMG's COBRA, Sun's Enterprise Java Beans, and Microsoft's DCOM. The security models of each architecture are described and their efficiency and flexibility are evaluated in a comparative manner.