Patterns for e-business are a group of proven, reusable assets that can be used to increase the speed of developing and deploying Web applications. The pattern discussed in this book, User-to-Online Buying, identifies the interaction of users with enterprise Web sites that sell goods and services.
Part 1 of the redbook guides you through the process of selecting an application and runtime topology. The pattern provides you with platform specific product mappings for implementing the chosen runtime topology.
Part 2 of the redbook provides a set of guidelines for building your e-commerce application. These guidelines include performance, technology options, application design, application development, systems management and security.
Part 3 of the redbook teaches you by example how to implement an e-commerce application using application topology 2. Some of the technology highlights include JSPs, servlets, beans, MQSeries XML messages, personalization, and LDAP.