Electronic commerce is a rapidly growing area accompanied by the growth of the Internet.
We foresee a future whereby the Web is populated with as many software agents as there are web documents today. Organizations will not only establish web presence via web sites alone, they will also provide agents to interact with other agents. Our project investigates issues in building the infrastructure for such a large scale, distributed, agent-based web commerce system. Our approach is to provide toolkits for users to create and customize buyer and seller agents quickly. This paper describes our preliminary work in the engineering of such buyer and seller toolkits.