The Comparison of J2EE and.NET for e-Business.pdf

The Comparison of J2EE and .NET for e-Business The Technical Report (hipic of High-performance Information Computing Center at California State University, Los Angeles Jongwook Woo Computer Information Systems Department, California State University, Los Angeles 90032-8530, Los Angeles, CA, USA e-mail : jwoo5@ Abstract e-Business has been popular in the world since Internet and World-Wide-Web came out to the world. Its applications are based on N-tier architecture. There are two famous approaches to build the applications, which are J2EE and .NET. In this paper, e-Business and N-tier architecture are described. Besides, J2EE and .NET are compared based on criteria to build e-Business application. Introduction e-Business system has been popular in the world since Internet and World-Wide-Web came out. IBM defines e-Business as the leveraging of network capabilities and technologies in order to achieve and maintain the huge advantages for customers, suppliers, partners, and employees [SABGMM03]. e-Business activities can be classified into three categories based on end-users of transactions, normally on the Internet: Intra- business, Business-to-consumer, and Business-to-business. Intra-business activity is to share company information and computing resources among employees on the intranet: for example, knowledge management. Business-to-business activity is to improve inter- organizational partnerships and relationships: for example, supply chain integration. Business-to-consumer, the most common activity, is to provide services to consumers who is out of organizations: for example, customer resource management, e-Commerce, and web auctions etc [NAONO99]. The needs of the legacy e-Business systems were simple to maintain functionality and stability on the corporate computing environment. However, the needs do not become sufficient for the current high volume e-Business transactions. And, businesses need to handle high w