E-Business Technology

Michael B. Spring
Department of Information Science and Telecommunications
University of Pittsburgh

E-Business Overview 

[ Theory | Technology | Examples ]

NOTE:  The HTML versions of the PowerPoint presentations require Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5.  They can be viewed using Netscape but the additional windows opened are not resizable and the presentation is far from optimal. The PDF versions can be viewed using Acrobat reader on any machine

An Overview of the technical topics covered in the course.  It includes the full gamut of technologies being used to build e-business sites.

HTML | PDF
Basic HTML and Web Design will address issues pertaining to the analysis, design, and management of websites.  It would introduce web authoring languages and web authoring tools.  It would cover HTML as a language and XML as a system of languages.  Cascading Style Sheets and the XML link language would also be introduced.

 HTML | PDF
HTML: Fragments, Frames, and Forms looks at the more advanced aspects of page design

 HTML | PDF
Practical Design looks at some of the principles and practices that lead to effective pages and sites

 HTML | PDF
Javascript (part I (1) | part II (2)) and Applets (3)will examine client side coding via scripting languages as well as the use of applet technology to offload server workload.

(1) HTML | PDF
(2) HTML | PDF
(3) HTML | PDF
CGI scripts using PERL (part I (1) | part II (2)) to show how to process forms and access DBMSs.

(1) HTML | PDF
(2) HTML | PDF
Servlets are examined in three presentation. 
  • Basic operations (1) covers the http servlet framework.
  • JDBC (2) addresses Web-Database interfaces for things like product catalogs through servlets and scripts
  • Advanced features (3) looks at authentication, cookies, and security.  It explores LDAP, DES, and Digital Certificate standards.  Web security issues include server side vulnerabilities, general applications of secure communications including the use of passwords and certificates.

(1) HTML | PDF
(2) HTML | PDF
(3) HTML | PDF
+ Web scripted pages will be covered in the form of Java Server Pages

 HTML | PDF
+ Spider programming

 HTML | PDF
+ Document Type Definitions

 HTML | PDF
 + A First Look at XML

 HTML | PDF
 + Document Processing and XML: A Broad Perspective

 HTML | PDF

[ Theory | Technology | Examples ]

<< E-Business Overview