Professional Java E-Commerce

To allow readers to gain a full appreciation of the diversity of topics involved in building e-commerce solutions, the book consists of five main sections. We begin by looking at the general area of e-business and the commercial considerations surrounding such application development. We then look at the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), XML, and XSLT. Building on this, we discuss the development of B2C sites for online selling and the design of effective portal sites. Our fourth section is devoted to the expanding area of B2B commerce where XML and XSLT are proving invaluable. Finally, we highlight new developments in the area of m-commerce and see how Java technologies can be used to facilitate trading anywhere. A particular feature of the book is the inclusion of case studies that provide hard won information on the challenges of building effective B2C and B2B applications in the real world.

Amazon.com Review
Ideal for IT managers and developers working on e-commerce projects, Professional Java E-Commerce shows off how to design and program working e-stores and other enterprise Web applications powered by Java. This book is a guide to the nuts and bolts of Java used for e-commerce sites, and it also surveys the management and design issues that any organization will face when doing business online.

The first sections give an IT manager's perspective on integrating e-commerce initiatives into your organization, whether they're B2B, B2C, or m-commerce initiatives. The coverage achieves considerable depth. As well as terms you've already heard about, the team authors also look at B2B2C and C2B2C scenarios. They cover project planning for successful e-commerce software development and today's n-tiered architectures for scalability, and provide a quite thorough discussion of the security issues surrounding e-commerce.

The book then delves into actual sample source code for a variety of e-commerce applications, beginning with a traditional online store (for selling computers) with a product catalog and a shopping basket. Written with simple JSP, this site gets enhanced later using state-of-the-art Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) for better scalability and performance. Hands-on advice for using tools like BEA WebLogic Application Server (something of an industry standard) will help you apply your knowledge to real projects. Further examples look at real-world instances of corporate e-commerce in action, including working code for a portal Web site, a supply chain application (using XML), and a workflow Web application. The book closes with newer technologies like m-commerce (in which business is conducted through wireless devices) and smart cards.

The working source code and real-world perspective help distinguish this text in its presentation of some emerging Java enterprise-level technologies. For many working Java developers or managers, Professional Java E-Commerce can help shift the odds in your favor for that next big e-commerce project with its mix of canny advice and very practical sample source code that shows the right ways to use Java to write several high-end enterprise e-commerce solutions. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

• E-commerce business strategy and planning
• Types and business impact of e-commerce (including B2C, B2B, B2B2C, C2C, C2B2C, and m-commerce)
• Business requirements for e-commerce applications (including technological and business considerations)
• E-commerce project planning (software project management and process)
• Guide to architecting e-commerce applications (technical requirements and architecture)
• Overview of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and its support for e-commerce
• Design approaches and components for e-commerce
• Introduction to XML and XSLT
• Security issues for online business (including Java security, authentication, and authorization)
• Sample B2C online computer store
• Usability issues (searching, feedback, and membership and internationalization)
• Data validation techniques for user input (client-side and server-side options)
• Adding Enterprise JavaBeans to the e-commerce site
• Using BEA WebLogic
• Case study for a custom portal
• Case study for a B2B solution using XML/XSLT to share data between systems in the supply chain
• Mass integration with the Java Message Service (JMS)
• Introduction to application service providers (ASPs)
• Case studies for a workflow application and a corporate purchasing Web site
• Introduction to m-commerce
• WAP and WML
• Smart cards
• XML and XSLT primer