Essential Technologies for E-commerce: Developing Professional Web Applications - Softcover

Brancheau, James; Nansi, Shi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130610364 ISBN 13: 9780130610362

Publisher: Pearson Education Asia Pte., Ltd., 2001

Synopsis

This book is designed by a strong desire to help you learn and master the most essential technologies for developing Electronic Commerce (EC) applications. It reviews the core and essential technologies used in developing electronic commerce applications for the Internet and Web. It is designed to introduce IT savvy professionals to the most critical standards and technologies used in the global Internet and in corporate Intranets. The enabling technologies introduced include Web browsers and HTML, Web servers and HTTP, CGI and Perl, JavaScript, Database access, Java and Java Beans, ActiveX and VBScript, Distributed computing architectures, Security threats, Cryptographic applications, secure protocols such as SSL and S-MIME, secure payment systems such as SET, and etc.

In the Internet era, new technologies for electronic commerce are evolving or emerging every day. It is impossible for one book to cover all technologies in such a quickly changing area.

This book, therefore, focuses on introducing the essential and critical core technologies. This is because most new technologies are developed based on or evolved from these essential technologies. If the reader has mastered these, they can harness them to develop their electronic commerce applications, and more important, they are able to learn the emerged or evolved technologies more easily and quickly. The authors’ overall goal is to achieve breadth in understanding the strengths, weaknesses, and appropriate roles of fundamental approaches and architectures to the enabling technologies for Electronic Commerce. They attempt to provide a comprehensive and appropriate curriculum designed to help students and professionals master the art and science of electronic commerce applications development. It is their hope that the reader will gain a comprehensive understanding of the strengths, weaknesses and appropriate uses of the essential technologies for electronic commerce applications development.

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About the Author

Dr. Brancheau was a founding Principal and is Managing Vice-President of Solista Global LLC in the US and is Managing Director of Solista Global BV inThe Netherlands. Solista is a consultancy for the strategic application and management of technology in business. Dr. Brancheau is an internationally recognized expert in web-based and television-based electronic business. He has held executive-level IT management positions and served as a tenured research professor. He led the architecture of a web-based, rules-driven, medical eligibility determination system for the State of Colorado that has become a model nationwide. Dr. Brancheau has authored more than a dozen web-based courses on web applications development and has presented on electronic commerce worldwide at universities and on radio and television.

Dr. Shi is currently Technology Planning Manager of Singapore Pools. He has served in IT strategy and planning for the pass 20 years in the areas of E-commerce, IT security and network design. He is a member of the Information Technology Management Association (ITMA), Singapore, and the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education Asia Pte., Ltd.
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130610364
• ISBN 13: 9780130610362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296