UKSmart - National Internet Portal

With a comprehensive number of functions for
e-commerce ,signed and safeguarded e-mail messages and a comprehensive point and rebate system, it was the idea of UKSmart www.uksmart.com
to become a wholly British Internet portal.

The portal was developed in close cooperation with Royal Mail, England's Postal Service.

The target group was all British citizens and this required the Portal to handle many simultaneous users in a scalable manner.

As Britain does not use personal identification numbers in the way done in Sweden, the registration process for membership min UKSmart was very complicated. Users needed to be verified as British citizens and in the registration process there was therefore an integration with Web services from Viacode www.viacode.com a subsidiary to Royal Mail www.royalmail.com

Viacode delivered secure electronic transactions to for example the English Postal Service. Also a number of upgrading processes of membership at UKSmart were implemented in a similar manner.

Edgecode developed the architecture and implemented the registration process where users, in a number of steps, were identified, certified, assigned an e-mail account and thereafter membership in UKSmart.

In addition Edgecode developed a webmail based user interface for e-mail processing that was integrated with underlying IT systems

The solution handled a large number of simultaneous users and e-mail accounts.

The technological platform was based on – Java J2EE with JSP, Servlets, EJB, IBM Websphere, IBM DB2 and IBM MQ.

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