The Trends

e-Business, or e-Commerce, has been changing the ways for doing business since late 1990s. There were several milestone progresses while information technologies rapidly developed in past 20 years. One of the most significant improvements for e-commerce implementation is pushed by “Wireless” technology since it becomes an industry standard and adopted by IT applications. It’s recognized as a “Third Wave” of IT impacting e-commerce applications, and changing people’s thoughts, methods and behaviors.

These new technologies turn traditional application, such as computer based network to wireless, mobile environment that enables 3A (anywhere, anytime, any devices) communication realized.

Usages
  • Connect your operation to the places where internet connection and wireless communication is available. 
  • Enable management system (e.g. OA, ERP, etc.), customer relation management (CRM system) are implemented by the means of “3A”.
  • Management and transaction activities can be executed from computer (Internet Explorer, Desktop) and mobility equipment (cell phone, PDA) by “3A” means.
  • Ultimately interactive with team members, customers, vendors. Data updated constantly and automatically.

Technologies:

  • At customer: MVC (Struts/JSF) + Cell phone (Wireless network) + Desktop + IE.
  • At internet : Web-Services (XML/SOAP/WSDL/UDDI).
  • At application Server: MVC + Spring + Hibernate + Oracle/SQL.Multi-tiers, Distributed application, Loosely coupled.

Architecture Examples:

  • Multi-tiers, Distributed application, Loosely coupled.
  • Flexible UI, Unified Application Server.