Electronic Commerce Technical Issues

Tomcat

The tomcat shell has been fixed and now works. Create a directory of your own for tomcat (e.g $HOME/tomcat). Create subdirectories conf and webapps. Copy the conf files from the tomcat distribution:


    cp /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat/conf/* $HOME/tomcat

Set the TOMCAT_HOME environment vbl, say in your .profile:


    export TOMCAT_HOME=$HOME/tomcat

Then start tomcat at a shell prompt by


    tomcat.sh start

and stop it by


    tomcat.sh stop

Handout

The initial handout is incomplete, but contains a list of topics that should be covered in this subject.

Lectures

Week 1 - Overview
Understanding eCommerce and eBusiness Architecture
Understanding eCommerce and eBusiness Technologies
Week 2 - HTML and HTTP
Week 3 - CGI Scripts
Basic Apache Configuration
Server-Side Includes
CGI Scripts
Week 4 - Perl
Nik Silver's Perl tutorial
Tom Christiansen's Object-oriented tutorial for Perl
CGI Perl module
Week 5 - Servlets
Week 6 - Session management
HTTP and application Sessions Apache modules
Java Servlets
Week 7 - more Perl and JSP
Perl Session management module
Apache Active Server Pages
Basic Java Server Pages
Week 8 - Security
Garry Grant's Slides
Garry's paper
HTTP User Authentication
Week 13 - Oddments Payment Systems
JDBC
Search Engines
Week 15 - WAP and Presentation stuff
WAP
Presentation Aspects

Assignments

Assignment 1 is due on Friday 18 August
Assignment 2 is due on Friday 13 October
Assignment 3 is due on 14 November

Materials at front desk

Week 2 related
- NCD HTML Tag List
- WebMonkey "Sizing up the Browsers"
- XHTML 1.0 specification
- HTTP 1.1 specification
- HTML 4.0 specification
- WebMonkey "Browser detection"
Week 3 related
- The CGI-LIB Library for C code
- CGI/1.1 Specification
- Modelling Web applications with UML
- Java CGI HOW-TO
- CGI Security
Week 4 related
- CGI.pm reference manual
- Reuven Lerner "At the Forge: Combining Apache and Perl"
Week 5 related
- Stefan Zeiger "An invitation to Servlets"
- Cynthia Bloch "Trail: Servlets"
- Marty Hall "Servlets and Java Server Pages"
Week 6 related
- Session.pm Users Guide
- Session.pm Reference manual
- Apache ASP manual
Week 7 related
- Papers from IBM on Application Frameworks for e-business from http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ebusiness/library.html
- Nathan Wallace, "Design Patterns in Web Programming" from http://www.e-gineer.com/articles/design-patterns-in-web-programming.phtml
- Kimberley Perzel and David Kane, "Usability Patterns for Applications on the World Wide Web", PLOP99 http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop99/proceedings/
Week 8 related
- ApacheWeek: "Using User Authentication"
- "Mosaic User Authentication Tutorial"
- IETF RFC 2617 "HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication"
- mod_SSL User Manual
Week 14 related
- Steve Ball's lecture notes
Week 15 related
- WAP Architecture
- WAP WML Specification
- WML Tutorial
- iMode FAQ
- cHTML specification

Jan Newmarch (http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au)