Over 30,000 IT jobs every day Mobile Technology email newsletter Get ZDNet's mobile news and reviews. Because it did not want to design the architecture specifically around the Net, JD Williams decided not to use its existing enterprise system to provide Web-based services. This provides 'stability, scalability, availability, manageability and security', says Fothergill. Development was undertaken in Java to achieve portability.
Internet business is very different from a traditional business.
While you get peaks and troughs in both, the spikes are orders of magnitude higher on the Net,' says Fothergill. Any ancillary systems continue to have a relationship only with the enterprise server, thus providing information that can potentially be used by any delivery channel. A component-based development and integration strategy, tying business logic components together using IBM's MQSeries and Merant's Egility to develop connections between components.