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DCU Students pick up ecommerce award
June 1999
Winners of the Anderson Consulting project award

A Java Project by two Dublin City University students has won the Anderson Consulting Award. for eCommerce. Sean  Kinsella and Aidan Haran, who have just completed their final year of a B.Sc. in Computer Applications, took the award for JTrade, a project in which they set out to create a secure environment for financial trading over the internet. With the JTrade product, the server acts as a broker between clients, advertising deals and communicating the bidding process until a deal is resolved.

Each completed deal has an associated ticket to indicate the particulars of the deal. Kinsella and Haran say the system can eventually be used as a framework to facilitate all types of securities, including foreign exchange and precious metals.

JTrade uses J/Crypto libaries from Baltimore Technologies to authenticate the origin and ensure the confidentiality and non-repudiation of deals.

Picture shows Caroline Wardle, process manager at Anderson Consulting with award-winners and Aidan Haran (left) and Sean Kinsella