Developing Distributed & E-commerce Applications

Darrel Ince Developing Distributed and E-Commerce Applications Approved by author 28th February 2001 The last three years have seen an incredible growth of interest in distributed systems which address the business needs of companies, and which use network technology - primarily the technology employed in the internet. This book is about the development of e-commerce and e-business systems using the new technologies that have emerged or have matured over the last few years, such as web servers, CORBA, HTML, XML and Java. It looks in particular at more challenging applications where major problems in performance and reliability need to be addressed. Using a 'bottom-up' approach, the book discusses client/servers and distributed development paradigms, before moving on to more specific technologies that are examples of the above concepts. The final part of the book covers advanced topics, such as internet security, concurrency, agents, and ubiquitous/mobile computing. Features Strongly application oriented, using Java as the implementation language Shaded text boxes throughout the book contain case studies and concise descriptions of specific technologies CD-ROM to accompany the book containing - full searchable text - - hypertext 'spider's web' links to further reading and web pages of interest - - programming implementation exercises to be undertaken by the student at the computer About the author Darrel Ince is Professor of Computing at the Open University. He is the author of over 30 books, including Active Java, one of the first books published on the Java Programming Language.Ince, Darrell is the author of 'Developing Distributed & E-commerce Applications ' with ISBN 9780201730463 and ISBN 0201730464.