Page Design ?

Hi All,
I am Planning to develop a Web page before that let me explain my taught.
I have a card reader which reads the data from Chip, So when ever such thing happen I need to display information that I got from the Chip,Also I need to display the information related to that chip data (ERP Database Data) in the same page.
Is it possible to build such page thing using ADF? If so what are things i need to know or use?
Please guide me.
Thanks
Kumar.

Hi,
you need to know how the card reader is integrated. If it sis integrated on the server side, you would use Active Data Services in ADF Faces to push the information to the browser. If the card reader is attached to the computer running the browser view, you need to invoke JavaScript from the reader (which means the reader has an activeX or Java interface on the page) to notify and query the server. Its less a page design question but functional. However, you may want to refine the question with more details to get a better answer
Frank

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