Database & Security:

• Discuss later in greater detail
• Commercial and free/shareware available.
• Oracle, Sybase, mySQL are some of the commonly used databases.

e-Commerce SW System Components

Server SW:

• web server-
  • Commercial and Free available.
  • Apache HTTP Server
    • see www.apache.org
    • has built-in support for Java Servlets and JSP.
    • Configuration files: (located in install path/conf)
      • files (located in install path/conf) httpd.conf, access.conf, srm.conf. These may alter depending on version.

    Terms httpd - is HTTP Daemon that runs. default is 8080...but, you can select this and will change the port number you use in your URL. Server Root - refers to top directory tree where config, error and log files are placed Document Root - root directory where your HTML files/documents are present. mime.types = file containing MIME types and related extensions

 

 

• others: ftp, mail, internet programming - servlet engine, perl interpreter, etc.

Apache's TomCat (see www.apache.org) is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

• Apache JServ is a 100 percent pure Java Servlet engine. Works as a server application that listens for request following the Apache JServ Protocol. When installing Apache Tomcat, it has a module that can be integrated with Apache HTTP server so that Servlet requests are sent by the Web server to the Servlet Engine automatically.