The IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite is a software product that enables the development of dynamic, secure, on-line businesses. Product Advisor, a component of the WebSphere Commerce Suite, consists of a set of tools to be used by marketing personnel to generate, without programming help, Web shopping applications involving a product catalog. Rofrano describes the shopping paradigms covered by Product Advisor, as well as the Java infrastructure that supports the Product Advisor tools. In enterprise environments, e-business applications may need to be controlled and managed by external management systems. JMX benefits vendors targeting enterprise environments by insulating application developers from the need to anticipate which management systems their customers will use.
Security is an important requirement for e-business.
With the use of Java technology, Web application servers have become a major means of providing e-business environments. Koved et al. survey the various Java security technologies that can be employed between client and server entities, and from served objects, to make Web application server environments secure. As e-business becomes widespread, it encompasses devices with limited display capabilities. Britton et al. They discuss different approaches to content adaptation and where best to perform transcoding.