Introduction

The purpose of this web log (also called blog) is to show and explain the various steps conduct by a group of bachelor students through an ebusiness project. This group is composed of three IT students in the ITC 382 class, Stefano Raimondi, Sangeol Lee and Thong Dinh. The subject covers different aspects of E-business including E-commerce, Database Servers, Programming web servers, XML, RMI, CORBA, Internet Security, Concurrency and transactions. Eight workshops and sixteen exercises are going to be conducted to ensure and show a specific understanding of each topic. The blog has been opened not only to give a brief explanation of what E-business includes and means but also to achieve an open discussion about its use and understanding. Questions, enquiries and problems can be posted to help users and visitors of the blog to achieve a better comprehension. Week by week a new topic will be examined giving a practical example through a workshop or an exercise.

These are the topics of each exercise:
Exercise 1 Analysis of the online communities' paradigm
Exercise 2: Finding some common ground
Exercise 3: From DNS and DHCP to Clouds and Grids
Exercise 4: Network and Web programming frameworks
Exercise 5: Database case study
Exercise 6: Web form design and processing: A basis for e-commerce interaction
Exercise 7: Application server platforms in e-commerce
Exercise 8: XML introduction
Exercise 9: Electronic payments and security I
Exercise 10: Concurrency and Threading demonstration in Python
Exercise 11: TP monitors and transaction protocols
Exercise 12: Modelling with UML or MVC?
Exercise 13: Shopping cart specifications
Exercise 14: Searching mechanisms, virtual worlds and cyberagents
Exercise 15: M-commerce: Innovation and mobile devices
Exercise 16: Systems Integration

Plus 8 workshops:
Workshop 1: Setting up the model railway
Workshop 2: Model View Controller design approach
Workshop 3: Online Taxi Booking System: MySQL and Database design
Workshop 4: Riding the Rails with Ruby
Workshop 5: Admiring the scenery: Forms and screen layouts
Workshop 6 :Enjoying the ride: AJAX: Javascript is not Java
Workshop 7: End of the Line: Migration to the production site
Workshop 8: Ruby on Rails Workshop report and evaluation