CMSC 666 - Electronic Commerce Technology

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This course is designed to prepare students to be e-commerce developers. It introduces the students to the changing and competitive landscape of e-commerce technology, products and solutions. The course begins with an introduction to WWW technology, an overview of Web applications and services, discussions on networking technologies with the view toward mobile and wireless commerce, object orientation and Web programming. It also covers Java language and relational databases; database-Web connectivity; interprocess communications in a distributed environment, concentrating on Java RMI and CORBA technologies, JavaScript, dynamic HTML, XML and its applications and component programming with JavaBeans and WebServer servlet architecture. The second part of the course explores the theoretical underpinnings of decision support systems, provides an overview of Web mining and commercial decision support products for e-commerce and introduces the student to agent technology and agent-driven e-commerce.