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Overview

The problem with the term "ebusiness" is that there seems to be as many definitions as there are software vendors. This course starts with a simple definition, "doing business over the Web." As this definition is refined and expanded, you'll see that ebusiness encompasses a continuum of options, from simple web hosting to ecommerce, internal and external business integration, and web services. The course describes the multiple options that are available and provides examples designed to help you place your organization's ebusiness goals on the spectrum of available options.

As you will see, various ebusiness implementations use a complex array of technologies. To the uninitiated, these technologies seem like an alphabet soup of options, including HTTP, HTML, CGI, URL, JSP, EJB, WAS, XML, XSL, UDDI, WSDL, SOAP, and others. This course introduces these technologies, placing them on the ebusiness continuum according to how they satisfy business requirements.

The purpose of this course is twofold. For IT managers and others interested in ebusiness concepts, it provides an overview of the available technologies. You will see the role of each technology and how they fit together in a typical ebusiness implementation. For IBM i programmers, the course provides the background information needed to understand the remaining courses of this series.

Approximate Study Time: 4 hours

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

Arrange potential ebusiness activities by their implementation complexity
Identify the technologies required for different levels of ebusiness implementations
Define TCP/IP terms
Match TCP/IP protocols with their functions
Order the events that take place during the display of a typical web page
Identify the role of HTML in a Web application
Identify the sequence of events that occur when a web page invokes a CGI program
Name and describe two ways in which data from a web user can be passed to a CGI program
Interpret a Uniform Resource Indicator (URI) that invokes a CGI program and passes a data string to it
Describe methods that can be used to simulate a dialog between a web user and a server
Identify the roles of Net.Data and PHP in a web application
Describe the purpose of a scripting language
Describe the differences between a CGI program and a servlet
Describe the primary functions of an application server
Describe the difference between the WebFacing tool and a typical screen scraper
Define the following terms related to the use of Java: applet, servlet, JavaBean, JSP, EJB
Identify the application servers that are supported in the IBM i environment
Identify the parts of an XML element
Determine whether a document consists of well formed XML statements
Describe the purpose of XML, DOM, SAX, XSLT, DTDs, and schemas
Describe the difference between HTML and XHTML
Identify key differences between XML and JSON
Define what is meant by a web service
Match UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP with descriptions of their purposes
Identify differences between SOAP and REST

Topic Outline

Defining eBusiness

Web Publishing

eCommerce

Business Integration

Communicating with Business Partners

Web Services

Audience

This course should be taken by individuals responsible for planning, implementing, and/or managing an organization's web site and other ebusiness activities. This audience includes IT managers, webmasters, content developers, application programmers, and system administrators.

Prerequisites