The Applications Of CORBA Technology To Electronic Commerce

With the development of Internet, e-commerce (electronic commerce) is realized and utilized by more enterprises and customers for its advantages such as convenience, promptness and efficiency. E-commerce performs trades by means of advertising and selling goods, and provides services and information for large groups of customers in the dynamic open electronic commerce environments. It is not only advanced technologies used in enterprise's internal reform, but also can promote the regulation of national economic structure.This thesis mainly studies on the CORBA-based e-commerce system, which includes five chapters. The e-commerce system, which includes the features and the technology applied, is introduced in chapter one. In addition, chapter one analyses and compares the popular CRM (Customer Relationship Management). Chapter two analyses the three main distributed object component technology (DCOM, EJB and COBRA), emphasizes on the kernel technology- component technology CORBA. CORBA's work principles are interpreted by using workflow diagrams. In chapter three, this thesis analyse the system's requirement. Chapter four introduces how to design the CORBA-based e-commerce system. JAVA and CORBA are combined in the system design, which has many advantages of being simple, transportable, reusable and secure. The design of database is important. Chapter five gives an example of shopping e-commerce system, and interprets the system functions of this system by combining the design process.Lastly, this thesis summarizes the shortages of this thesis, and gives some advice on the future research.