Agent Technology In E-commerce Applications

As the Internet technologies developing rapid, E-business develops better than before, and people also require more than before. Now, the existing E-business is called the First Generation E-business, it has a lot of disadvantages, and is different from daily shopping. First, the information that people get from Internet is only electronic category which is short of vividness, otherwise, do some compare for so much information is a real hard work; second, searching information, comparing and deciding, even paying all need people's participation, these boring work give customers much inconvenience. Intelligent Agent can do certain task, and has capability to interact with environment autumnally; further more it has features of reacting, automating. So combine E-business with Agent technology is a kind of trend, and this is called the Second Generation E-business.This thesis describes OLTS, an on-line trading system using mobile agent technology. The OLTS system assists end-users selling and buying goods or services through mobile agents on the Internet. A system administrator creates trader accounts and distributed agents to marketplaces through the Web. An authorized trader then sends an agent to an agent marketplace to buy or sell specific goods or services based on user-specified strategies. The OLTS system is modeled on IBM Aglet, a pure Java developed, and full-featured agent-enhanced distributed computing environment. Java Servlet are used as a bridge between the Web client and the back end servers. Persistent storage on the Java Web Server is provided through JDBC (Java Database Connectivity).