petrolnet.com is a fictious company in the Petro-Chemical market. This company was created to demonstrate the processing capabilities of the NetReliance Risk Advisory service. petrolnet.com has a simple business concept, and that is to publish petro-chemical related orders on an online order board; and accept bids from suppliers on behalf of their customers. In essence, petrolnet.com is a very simple business-to-business exchange.
The demonstration will rely on the transactions that petrolnet.com supports such as order submission, order viewing, bid review, and bid submission. Each of these transaction types is supported by a separate web based application (Servlet or JSP).
The technical environment setup for
petrolnet.com is shown in the following diagram:
This environment is configured to
support secure sessions using SSLv3. Authentication of the Supplier and/or
Customer is performed using client side X.509 digital certificates which can
be issued by any Certificate Authority supported by petrolnet.com's policies.
The web server will host a NetReliance Risk Advisory Agent.
The database used in the environment is Oracle Lite and is directly accessed by the Servlets running on the web server.
Transactions in the petrolnet.com exchange are all conducted via interactive browser sessions.