Professional Java E-Commerce

This is the only book that covers such a wide range of issues relating to the application of Java to e-commerce. Although there are subjects that experienced users would certainly prefered to see treated in more depth this is an invaluable resource to those that need to get the big picture to a level that is practical and useful for understanding application and designing solutions. Well done.

The Audience for this Book Java E-Commerce is aimed at people who already know Java and need to evaluate the technologies available. I first I wondered what the target audience would be, if you are a programmer you might not get to choose the technologies and if you are a manager you might not have the time or inclination to learn about these technologies in such depth. I now appreciate that they are appropriate for just about anyone except a beginner, most programmers need to know what technologies are available and managers need to know what the programmers are talking about.How the book is organisedThe book is divided into five sections starting with The E-commerce Landscape. This didn't tell me much I didn't already know, evolution of internet... exciting, define e-commerce....arpanet, web browsers etc etc. All scene setting stuff, but you can't have a fairy story without "once upon a time". Things get a little more interesting with Section 2, "Architecting Java Based e-commerce systems".Some parts of the web world assume that "everyone uses Microsoft Internet Explorer". The authors of this book recognize that in the future your audience might well be WebTV, a mobile phone or PDA. Although there is plenty of coverage of specific Java technologies such as EJB and Servlets the book recognises that most developments will have to fit in with legacy systems and that the heart of the task is to give the potential purchaser a usable and easy browsing experiences.Much of the material covers topics I already knew about superficially. Some crucial aspects covered are EJB, XML and JMS. I was fairly stunned to note a mention of the Log4J technology from the Apache group. If you haven't come across Log4J, go to the Apache org web site and download it. I challenge anyone not to find a use for it in any non trivial application. Even allowing for the time it takes to put a book together this illustrates that the authors are right at the front of developing technologies, absorb what these people say, they know what they are talking about. Plenty of XML CoverageThe topic of XML runs though large parts of the book. Chapter 16 gives an interesting overview of the emerging standards in XML dtd's. There are a raft of competing standards and the dust is yet to clear on which ones will be generally adopted. Chapter 13 has an in-depth discussion of an Intelligent Assistant, ie a natural language parser system to allow customers to interact with a virtual shop assistant. I thought this was interesting in an academic way but I suspect that the number of people who will actually adopt this technology would be very small indeed. The Bits I enjoyed mostThe part I enjoyed most was a part I thought I might not even get around to reading which was Chapter 23, "In the MarketPlace, Corporate Purchasing". This is written in a laconic style by people who obviously have plenty of real world experience. Mixed in with headings like " Characteristics of Corporate Purchasing Systems

Being a member of technical reviewing team for this book, i found this book extremely good for the Java Professinals. This Book Talks about all the latest technology and their significance in real world.Its talks about B@B, B2C , XMl , JMS, etc. I Found this book to be as complete and best books on java technologies in recent times.

I am a Java developer and I bought this book as I wanted to enhance my knowledge about architecting E-Commerce systems with Java. When talking of E-Commerce, I thought like other books this book will focus on B2C E-Commerce. But I was surprised to see even a larger section deveoted to B2B E-Commerce. Now this section and the last section about M-Commerce(Smart cards etc) are probably the best sections in this book. Ok B2C section is good enough but didn't cotain anything new as far as I am concerned. There are separate sections for 'What is E-Commerce?' and 'Doing E-Commerce with Java', there is lot of theory in them and probably are there to just add weight to the book.So all in all I give this one 4-Star rating and I'll suggest this book to any Java developer looking to get his/her hands wet in E-Commerce especially B2C and M-Commerce.

Just recently out (february 2001) This book is THE essential guide to latest J2EE design and concepts, technologies (XSLT), and b2c and b2b XML. I have bought copies for my entire team. Starting with a half-dozen too-general-to-be-useful intro chapters on J2EE and design methodologies (RUP, Extreme programming), it gets very quickly "down and dirty" into actual code sample for XSLT, and it keeps on getting better with discussion of security and then no less than FOUR real-world detailed designs WITH CODE of real-world b2c and b2b sites written by people who've been there, done that. Includes chapters on latest b2b XML and supply-chain integration cXML ebXML etc (a little light on this though) , and WAP and smart cards. Suggested complementary reading: "UML Distilled", "XML Bible", "XSLT Programmer's Reference", "Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2000", "Mastering Enterprise Java Beans". If you can master these 6 books you'll be making $150/hr on the streets of New York in no time. Missing: a good ebXML book, but as of April 2001 none had been published.