Exercises 10: Application Server Platform in E-Commerce

1. IBM has provide an IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite, Version 5.1. It is a complete e-commerce solution for e-business. This product is using DB2 or Oracles as their database, therefore, they are with Oracles as a business partner. IBM Websphere Commerce Suite can offer:(IBM, 2000)
- an online store
- conduct business to business or business(B2B) to consumer transactions(B2C)
- mobile commerce
Comparsion between DB2 and MySQL (IBM, 2006)


Oracle has provide an Oracle iStore for E-commerce solution. This product is using Oracle as a database. It offers the features and benefits: (Oracle, 2009)
- It builds, manage and personalize powerful, global and scalable internet storefronts.
- Istore supports both business to buisness (B2B) and business to customer (B2C) selling models
- Lower the cost of sales and improve services with an online commerical presence.
Compare betweem Oracle and MySQL(Petri, n.d.)

Microsoft provides e-commerce solution by their own products like the e-commerce manager, frontpage and also with their asp. Therefore, users can tailor made their e-commerce solution by the tools from Microsoft, and the database can be chose by their own, for instances, Access Database, SQL, or even though Oracle as well.

Compare between Microsoft SQL and MySQL (Tometa, 2004)

Sybase provides e-commerce solution with their famous application power building. They provide a flexible and easier ways to build up an e-server and online business with sybase datbase. Comparison between Sybase and MySQL in a white paper provided by Sybase Official Website.(Sybase, 2002) <http://www.sybase.com/content/1045499/Sybase_ASE_MySQL-102406-wp.pdf>

2.Perception is "the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information, and the word come from the Latin words perception, percepio, meaning "receiving, collecting, action of taking possession, apprehension with the mind or senses."" (Wilkipedia, 2009)

It is gettting stronger because due to this perceptual concepts could develop so many personal ad portal entertainment digital products like mp3.

Ajax is stand for Asynchronous Javascript and XML and it includes with html, css, dom, xml, xslt,xmlhttprequest and javascript. Ajax provides the role of architecture with user participation, it interfaces are an important component of many Web2.0 applications, for instances, Google Microsoft, Yahoo amd etc.(Arlekar, 2006)

3. Model-view-controller (MVC) is "an architectural pattern used in software engineering".(Wikipedia, 2009) In complex computer applications that present a large amount of data to the user, a developer often wishes to separate data (model) and user interface (view) concerns, so that changes to the user interface will not affect data handling, and that the data can be reorganized without changing the user interface. The model-view-controller solves this problem by decoupling data access and business logic from data presentation and user interaction, by introducing an intermediate component: the controller.

References:

1. IBM, 2000, 'IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite, Version 5.1: The Complete e-commerce Solution for Your Business '

<http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS200-415>

2. IBM, 2006,'Leverage MySQL skills to learn DB2 Express, Part 3: DB2 versus MySQL graphical user interface'

<http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0608tham/>

3. Oracle, 2009, 'Oracle iStore'

<http://www.oracle.com/applications/sales/istore.html>

4. Petri, n.d. ' A comparison of Oracle and MySQl'

<http://www.ioug.org/client_files/members/select_pdf/05q1/003_OracleMySQL.pdf>

5.Tometa, 2004, 'MySQL vs SQL'

<http://www.tometasoftware.com/mysql_vs_sqlserver.asp>

6. Sybase, 2002,'PB-EA Server Solution Reference 1.6'

<http://www.sybase.com/content/1020479/SolutionsReferenceGuideV16.pdf>

7. Arlekar, 2006,'The Role of AJAX in enhancing the user experience on the Web'

<http://www.roseindia.net/ajax/ajax-user-interface.shtml>

8.Wikipedia, 2009,'Perception'

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception>

9.Wikipedia, 2009,'Model-View-Controller'

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_view_controller>