Success With Electronic Business: Design, Architecture And Technology Of Electronic Business Systems

Presents a comprehensive guide to the challenge of business transactions in the age of electronic business. Discusses how to use established and novel concepts for software engineering and software architecture to build Internet-based applications for electronic business. Softcover.

is becoming vital that the industry begins to produce engineering strategies for Internet-based applications. If you are tasked with building a corporate Web site or exploiting the Internet for new business opportunities, this book will help you to make the right decisions when selecting technology, products, people and strategies.

Success with Electronic Business is a comprehensive guide to the challenge

of business transactions in the age of electronic business. The book shows how

to use established and novel concepts for software engineering and software

architecture to build Internet-based applications or electronic business.

The authors draw on their extensive experience to discuss the technical aspects

of business-to-business information interchange, in a practical and accessible

way. Object-orientation, component-based architectures, aspect-oriented programming

and agents, are discussed and applied specifically in the context of electronic

business. The book explores the actual technology that you will need to implement

Internet-based electronic business methods, providing an overview of Java and

XML and focussing in detail on the 'Bolero' framework.

Additional features:

· CD containing demo version of Bolero-Software AG's development environment

for electronic business
· Supporting Web site with updates and advice on technology and pointers

to other important sites.

About the authors:
Berthold Daum has worked in the software industry for twenty years, encompassing

projects on O-O, artificial intelligence and telecoms. More recently at Software

AG he was a co-developer of the Natural 4GL.

Markus Scheller, also at Software AG, is a specialist in the development and

implementation of enterprise-wide services and sales strategies for electronic

business. He has led international software development teams and written for

many international IT magazines.

About Software AG:
Software AG, based in Darmstadt, Germany, is one of the largest software companies

worldwide, with its products used in more that ninety countries. It is a leader

in the are of integration technology and its products and services support the

integration of transaction-based mission-critical applications across heterogeneous

system platforms, from mainframe to the Web. More information can be found at

softwareag.