Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Architecture for a Component-Based, Plug-In Micro-payment System

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Web Technologies and Applications (APWeb 2003)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2642))

Included in the following conference series:

Abstract

Micro-payment systems have the potential to provide non-intrusive, high-volume and low-cost pay-as-you-use services for a wide variety of web-based applications. However, adding micro-payment support to web-sites is usually time-consuming and intrusive, both to the web site’s software architecture and its user interface implementation. We describe a plug-in, component model for adding micro-payment support to web applications. We use J2EE software components to encapsulate micro-payment E-coin debiting and redemption and discrete user interface enhancement. A CORBA infrastructure is used to inter-connect J2EE and non-J2EE vendors and micro-payment brokers. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach with an on-line, pay-as-you-use journal portal example and outline an approach to using web services to further generalize our architecture.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Blankenhorn, D.: Charging for Content, E-commerce Times. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/306.html.

  2. Dai, X. and Lo, B.: NetPay — An Efficient Protocol for Micropayments on the WWW. Fifth Australian World Wide Web Conference, Australia (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Dai, X., Grundy, J. and Lo, B.: Comparing and contrasting micro-payment models for E-commerce systems, International Conferences of Info-tech and Info-net (ICII), China (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  4. Dai, X., Grundy, J.: Architecture of a Micro-Payment System for Thin-Client Web Applications. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, CSREA Press, June 24–27, 444–450

    Google Scholar 

  5. Furche A. and Wrightson, G.: SubScrip — An efficient protocol for pay-per-view payments on the Internet, The 5th Annual International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, USA (1996)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Herzberg, A. and Yochai, H.: Mini-pay: Charging per Click on the Web, 1996 http://www.ibm.net.il/ibm_il/int-lab/mpay

  7. Herzberg, A.: Safeguarding Digital Library Contents — Charging for Online Content. D-Lib Magazine (1998), ISSN 1082-9873

    Google Scholar 

  8. Hwang, M-S., Lin, I-C. and Li, L-H.: A simple micro-payment scheme. Journal of Systems & Software, 55(3)(2001) 221–229

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Manasse, M.: The Millicent Protocols for Electronic Commerce. First USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce. New York (1995)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Rivest, R. and Shamir, A.: PayWord and MicroMint: Two Simple Micropayment Schemes. Proceedings of 1996 International Workshop on Security Protocols, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1189. Springer (1997) 69–87

    Google Scholar 

  11. Yen, S-M.: PayFair: a prepaid internet ensuring customer fairness micropayment scheme. IEE Proceedings-E Computers & Digital Techniques, vol. 148, no. 6, Nov. 2001, pp. 207–13. Publisher: IEE, UK.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Ji, D-Y. and Wang, Y-M.: A micropayment protocol based on PayWord. Acta Electronica Sinica, 30(2)(2002) 301–303

    MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  13. Sangjin, K., Heekuck, O.: An atomic micropayment system for a mobile computing environment. IEICE Transactions on Information & Systems. E84-D(6) (2001), 709–716

    Google Scholar 

  14. DongGook, P., Boyd, C., Dawson, E.: Micropayments for wireless communications. Information Security and Cryptology — ICISC 2000. Third International Conference. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2015). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany (2001), 192–205

    Google Scholar 

  15. McGarvey, R.: Micropayments enable teensy content purchases. Econtent, 24(1) (2001) 18–21

    Google Scholar 

  16. Allen, P.: Realising E-Business with Components. Addison-Wesley, October 2000.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Bichler, M., Segev, A., Zhao, J.L.: Component-based E-Commerce: Assessment of Current Practices and Future Directions. SIGMOD Record 27(4)(1998) 7–14

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Fingar, P.: Component-Based Frameworks for E-Commerce. Communications of the ACM (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  19. Chong, N.S.T., Sakauchi, M.: e-CoBrowse: co-navigating the Web with chat-pointers and add-ins-problems and promises. Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems 2(2000) 803–808

    Google Scholar 

  20. Grundy, J.C., Wang, X., Hosking, J.G.: Building Multi-device, Component-based, Thin-client Groupware: Issues and Experiences. In Proceedings of the 3rd Australasian User Interface Conference, Melbourne, Australia (2002) 28–30

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag, 92019, Auckland, New Zealand

    Xiaoling Dai & John Grundy

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Auckland, Private Bag, 92019, Auckland, New Zealand

    John Grundy

Authors
  1. Xiaoling Dai
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. John Grundy
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou  & Maria E. Orlowska  & 

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Dai, X., Grundy, J. (2003). Architecture for a Component-Based, Plug-In Micro-payment System. In: Zhou, X., Orlowska, M.E., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2642. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36901-5_26

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36901-5_26

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-02354-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-36901-1

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation