The example application

To have a recurrent theme throughout the book, most of the code examples show code from an example web application for transferring money online. We’ll call it “BuckPal.”2

2 BuckPal: a quick online search has revealed that a company named PayPal has stolen my idea and even copied part of the name. Joking aside: try to find a name similar to “PayPal” that is not the name of an existing company. It’s hilarious!

The BuckPal application allows a user to register an account, transfer money between accounts, and view the activities (deposits and withdrawals) on the account.

I’m not a finance specialist by any means, so please don’t judge the example code based on legal or functional correctness. Rather, judge it on structure and maintainability.

The curse of example applications for software engineering books and online resources is that they’re too simple to highlight the real-world problems we struggle with every day. On the other hand, an example application must stay simple enough to effectively convey the discussed concepts.

I hope to have found a balance between “too simple” and “too complex” as we discuss the use cases of the BuckPal application throughout this book.

The code of the example application can be found on GitHub.3

3 The BuckPal GitHub repository: https://github.com/thombergs/buckpal.