Electronic and Mobile Commerce Systems


There are more than 200 Java packages and 4,000 classes available. The Exercise IV tries to pick a useful one and has students be familiar with how packages work, so when students start working for the industry, they will have an idea of how to pick a Java package and use it to facilitate their works.

The electronic and mobile commerce systems are the most widely deployed IT systems in these days, and they are covered in the course CSci457 E/M-Commerce Systems, which may not be offered anymore.

The red line in the figure shows the percentage of m-commerce in the total retail e-commerce. Almost all business applications require to use databases, so it is very reasonable that the instructor picks the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) for a detailed study. This exercise is made as simple as possible. The most difficult part may be to be familiar with the APIs and set up the environment.

Once one SQL command in a JDBC program works, the rest would be similar and routine.

The following package is therefore picked:
import oracle.jdbc.*;
The JDBC APIs provide data access and management for databases from the Java programming language.




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