Professional Java E-Commerce [Mass Market Paperback]

Subrahmanyam Allamaraju (Author), Ronald Ashri (Author), Chad Darby (Author), Robert Flenner (Author), Alex Linde (Author), Tracie Karsjens (Author), Mark Kerzner (Author), Alex Krotov (Author), Jim MacIntosh (Author), James McGovern (Author), Thor Mirchandani (Author), Bryan Plaster (Author), Don Reamey (Author), P.G. Sarang (Author), Dave Writz (Author)

Book Description

Series: Programmer to Programmer | Publication Date: February 2001

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.

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher

This book has been designed for professional Java programmers who wish to leverage their in-depth knowledge of J2EE technologies to develop e-commerce solutions, either for consumer sites, or business-to-business scenarios.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 1003 pages
• Publisher: Peer Information; 1st edition (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861004818
• ISBN-13: 978-1861004819
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,373,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the e-commerce, where's the professionality?, April 7, 2002

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book addict (Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional Java E-Commerce (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Out of date and filled with fluff, October 27, 2002

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Rachel Tozier (Brea, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional Java E-Commerce (Mass Market Paperback)

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 first chapters that make a sophmoric attempt 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.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If it's all about Java and E-Commerce, buy this one, April 8, 2001

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"stardeveloper_com" (Pakistan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional Java E-Commerce (Mass Market Paperback)

I am a Java developer and I bought this book as I wanted to enhance my knowledge about architecting E-Commerce systems with Java. When talking of E-Commerce, I thought like other books this book will focus on B2C E-Commerce. But I was surprised to see even a larger section deveoted to B2B E-Commerce. Now this section and the last section about M-Commerce(Smart cards etc) are probably the best sections in this book. Ok B2C section is good enough but didn't cotain anything new as far as I am concerned. There are separate sections for 'What is E-Commerce?' and 'Doing E-Commerce with Java', there is lot of theory in them and probably are there to just add weight to the book.

So all in all I give this one 4-Star rating and I'll suggest this book to any Java developer looking to get his/her hands wet in E-Commerce especially B2C and M-Commerce.