MultECommerce: A Distributed Architecture for Collaborative Shopping on the WWW

摘要

The WWW has made information and services more available than ever before. Many of the first Web applications have been emulations of real world activities, in particular, e-commerce. But so far, the use of information and services on the Web has been a solitary one. We propose a component-based architecture for collaboration that provides shared navigation of the WWW along with an EJB-based server implementation. As a particular application built on this architecture, we present MultECommerce, through which multiple users can participate in virtual shopping trips among multiple shopping sites. MultECommerce features a multi-site shopping cart and enables one-stop checkout from all visited shopping sites. We examine security and performance issues of our architecture.