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Subrahmanyam Allamaraju,
Ronald Ashri,
Chad Darby,
Robert Flenner,
Alex Linde,
Tracie Karsjens,
Mark Kerzner,
Alex Krotov,
Jim MacIntosh,
James McGovern,
Thor Mirchandani,
Bryan Plaster,
Don Reamey,
P.G. Sarang
Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.84
EAN num: 9781861004819
ISBN number: 1861004818
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Page Count: 1003
Printing Date: 2001-02
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The term e-commerce encompasses a spectrum of trading interactions from the business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions that facilitate Web-based retail trade, to business-to-business (B2B) data exchange that increases supply chain efficiency. This book shows how the Java platform and Java technologies can be, and have been, employed to develop solutions that address these scenarios.
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 very 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 discusion 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 subsequent 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
User popularity level:
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This is the only book that covers such a wide range of issues relating to the application of Java to e-commerce. Although there are subjects that experienced users would certainly prefered to see treated in more depth this is an invaluable resource to those that need to get the big picture to a level that is practical and useful for understanding application and designing solutions. Well done.
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Of all the technical books I've read this one qualifies as the worst. It's out of date, but even when it was new it would justify my opinion.
It attempts to cover too wide an area of subjects, and manages to either state the obvious (as in the very first chapters that make a sophmoric endeavor to define e-commenrce), to display questionable knowledge on the part of contributing authors, as in the section that lamely attempts to discuss architecture. The section on architecture should have been written by someone who could write and who understood architecture. Unfortunately I got the impression that the authors had neither qualifications.
The case studies were interesting, but were not sufficiently insightful to warrant buying this book that those alone.
There are positives to this book though. It weighs nearly 6 pounds, making it suitable as a doorstop. Having photos of all of the authors who contributed on the front cover is helpful if you conduct interviews since it helps in the screen process in case one of them shows up for an interview or tries to come in as a consultant.
My advice is to avoid this book. There are much better ones that cover the subjects in it.
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There are a few good sections in this book (mainly the chapters that deal with WebLogic and the appendices of primers and reference material that comprise Section 6). However, considering that this book weighs in at over 1000 pages, its mainly fluff or glib (but not helpful), with too much material that states the obvious.
Much of the fluff is found in Section 1 (The E-Commerce Landscape), and Section 2 (Architecting Java-Based E-Commerce Systems) was, in my opinion, a glossed over, high-level overview that was used as filler.
Sections 3 (B2C E-Commerce Solutions) and 4 (B2B E-Commerce Solutions) have a few interesting chapters in each. My main complaint here is that Section 3 is a mix of solutions and techniques, while Section 4 is purely solution-focused. Section 5 (M-Commerce) is too light to be useful, and most of the material is already woefully out of date.
My recommendation is to pass this book up and, instead, seek out single-topic books that address the subjects in which you're interested.
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I can't believe the rating some people give this book. This book touches a lot of areas with little depth. The book contains a lot of filling with no practical usable things.
The information on practical Java E-commerce is very limited, and if you need usable information on JSP, Application Servers, ... I suggest you buy books about the specific areas you need information on. Even if this book was intended to be a high level overview on E-commerce it would miss its mark.
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The Audience for this Book
Java E-Commerce is aimed at people who already know Java and need to evaluate the technologies available. I very first I wondered what the target audience would be, if you are a programmer you might not get to choose the technologies and if you are a manager you might not have the time or inclination to learn about these technologies in such depth. I now appreciate that they are appropriate for just about anyone except a beginner, most programmers need to know what technologies are available and managers need to know what the programmers are talking about.
How the book is organised
The book is divided into five sections starting with The E-commerce Landscape. This didn't tell me much I didn't already know, evolution of internet... exciting, define e-commerce....arpanet, web browsers etc etc. All scene setting stuff, but you can't have a fairy story without "once upon a time". Things get a little more interesting with Section 2, "Architecting Java Based e-commerce systems".
Some parts of the web world assume that "everyone uses Microsoft Internet Explorer". The authors of this book recognize that in the future your audience might well be WebTV, a mobile phone or PDA. Although there is plenty of coverage of specific Java technologies such as EJB and Servlets the book recognises that most developments will have to fit in with legacy systems and that the heart of the task is to give the potential purchaser a usable and easy browsing experiences.
Much of the material covers topics I already knew about superficially. Some crucial aspects covered are EJB, XML and JMS. I was fairly stunned to note a mention of the Log4J technology from the Apache group. If you haven't come across Log4J, go to the Apache org web site and download it. I challenge anyone not to find a use for it in any non trivial application. Even allowing for the time it takes to put a book together this illustrates that the authors are right at the front of developing technologies, absorb what these people say, they know what they are talking about.
Plenty of XML Coverage
The topic of XML runs though large parts of the book. Chapter 16 gives an interesting overview of the emerging standards in XML dtd's. There are a raft of competing standards and the dust is yet to clear on which ones will be generally adopted. Chapter 13 has an in-depth discusion of an Intelligent Assistant, ie a natural language parser system to allow customers to interact with a virtual shop assistant. I thought this was interesting in an academic way but I suspect that the number of people who will actually adopt this technology would be very small indeed. The
Bits I enjoyed most
The part I enjoyed most was a part I thought I might not even get around to reading which was Chapter 23, "In the MarketPlace, Corporate Purchasing". This is written in a laconic style by people who obviously have plenty of real world experience. Mixed in with headings like " Characteristics of Corporate Purchasing Systems are titles like "The headaches of having more than one partner." At the end of this chapter are 4 case studies that made me smile for all the right reasons. I did my post graduate education in Software after I had a decade of experience in the industry. It used to annoy me that the lecturers insisted on describing an ideal world that I knew did not exist. I get annoyed by technical books that insist that by following their golden recipes everything will go perfectly. The 4 case studies illustrate that things rarely go to plan, frequently do not go as expected and sometimes have to use horrible solutions but can still solve the problems. If you are browsing your local book shop, pick up this book and jump to the end of chapter 23.
I try to read everything I can about emerging net and Java technologies but I learnt a whole slew of new things reading Java E-Commerce. Notably the nature of B2B technologies. I had rather foolishly assumed it was just more web applications where the person using the browser at one end was in a business and connecting to a server at another business. It actually refers to using web technologies to replace the automated EDI technologies that large corporations have been using for years. I found the topic of XSLT transformations fascinating in that it explains how to get around the incompatibilities between different forms of XML used by different companies. If two companies use different DTDs to structure their XML XSLT can be used to convert between the formats. Until I read that section I had thought of XSLT as a way of transforming XML into nicely formatted HTML.
I found the chapter on M-commerce (transactions via mobile devices) to be interesting as a primer on what can be done via mobile devices, but I suspect you could fit everyone who has ever placed an order via a mobile phone, in my living room and still ... Read More
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