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

Brancheau, James; Nansi, Shi

9780130610362: Essential Technologies for E-commerce: Developing Professional Web Applications

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130610364 ISBN 13: 9780130610362

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

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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Praises for Essential Technologies for E-commerce

This is a comprehensive book that gives an overview of what one needs to know about Internet applications from development to web security. It is helpful to both beginners and intermediate developers as it covers basic techniques and more advanced information. Aided by good diagrammatic illustrations of different web architectures, it is written in an engaging and easy-to-read style that allows people with no prior knowledge of web development to get up and running quickly. - Siow Yuen Khong, Alex, Chief Information Officer, HDB, Singapore

Essential Technologies for E-Commerce by Brancheau and Shi is a great guide for those desiring familiarity with building web-based applications. The book is compact, current, concise, clear and comprehensive. The action-oriented learning approach is to the point and allows learning by doing. The well-illustrated short chapters will facilitate the learner. – Kenneth Kozar, Professor of Information Systems, University of Colorado, USA

With the current intense concern with e-commerce among business and academia, James Brancheau and Shi Nansi's book has been published at an important time. It is an especially useful contribution to the literature on the subject because it fills the gap between, on one hand, texts that deal with purely commercial questions and, on the other hand, those that are just concerned with technical aspects. –David Bennett, Professor of Technology Management, Aston University, UK

Finally, here is a long-awaited and exciting book on Web technologies. It skillfully organizes a rich set of concepts and knowledge for building Web sites and e-commerce. The array of hot technologies covered in this book forms an excellent resource for all levels of Web developers. – Vincent C. Yen, Professor of MIS, Wright State University, USA

Essential Technologies for E-Commerce provides an introduction to Java, ActiveX, various Distributed Computing Architectures (including CORBA), as well as SQL and DBI/DBD (among other topics). Until recently, there were few books that cover these topics at a level of overview suitable for non-computer science students. This book fills that gap by providing a gentle introduction to the technologies of e-commerce. The authors have done a tremendous service to the academic community. Everyone who teaches a course on E-commerce needs to take a look at this book to see where it fits in his or her curriculum. – Prof. Eli Cohen, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Technology, Education & Webmaster,TeachIS.com website, USA

This comprehensive book fills an important gap. Many books and articles cover business issues, while many others cover specific technical areas in depth. This book gives a broad survey of all relevant technologies, with sufficient depth to be useful to technical professionals and at the same time is readable enough for use by general managers. –Lee Kwok Cheong, Managing Director, National Computer Systems Pte Ltd, Singapore

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).

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