The business scenario – movie ticket system

To explore the features delivered by the WebLogic Server and its associated technologies/products, we're going to develop a system to search and reserve movie tickets with two main business entities—the customer and the theater:

The main focus of the business is to provide a central point for movie theater customers to browse, search, and reserve tickets. In order to show up as a search result, a theater location (or chain) must close a deal with us. By doing so, they don't have to keep all the necessary structure to have an online presence, and we get our income from a monthly fee paid by each theater plus a small percentage of each ticket we sell.

Some of the data, such as the list of movies and locations are located at the central module, Store, and others, such as seat availability are held by each theater. Upon closing a partnership, we hand over a small application module that the theater's IT personnel must set up. So, when a customer queries...