The Patterns for e-business are a group of proven, reusable assets that can help speed the process of developing applications. The pattern discussed in this book, Business to Business e-Marketplace Pattern, is an emerging pattern that allows the development of e-Marketplace hub applications which bring multiple buyers and sellers together in a way that provides efficient electronic trading of goods and services. Subsets of the application topologies for the Business to Business e-Marketplace Pattern are used to describe different parts of the full marketplace topology, and they represent increasing levels of complexity, functionality and integration in the topology, ranging from a simple e-Marketplace to a fully integrated e-Marketplace. Part 1 of the IBM Redbooks publication describes the nature of e-Marketplaces and guides you through the process of choosing an application and runtime topology to deliver the desired market functionality. Part 2 of the book provides a set of guidelines for building your e-Marketplace application. These guidelines include discussion of performance, technology options, application design, application development, systems management, and security. Part 3 of the book describes, using the standard sample application, the functions available in WebSphere Commerce Suite, Marketplace Edition for AIX.

The Patterns for e-business are a group of proven, reusable assets that can help speed the process of developing applications. The pattern discussed in this book, Business to Business e-Marketplace Pattern, is an emerging pattern that allows the development of e-Marketplace hub applications which bring multiple buyers and sellers together in a way that provides efficient electronic trading of goods and services. Subsets of the application topologies for the Business to Business e-Marketplace Pattern are used to describe different parts of the full marketplace topology, and they represent increasing levels of complexity, functionality and integration in the topology, ranging from a simple e-Marketplace to a fully integrated e-Marketplace. Part 1 of the IBM Redbooks publication describes the nature of e-Marketplaces and guides you through the process of choosing an application and runtime topology to deliver the desired market functionality. Part 2 of the book provides a set of guidelines for building your e-Marketplace application. These guidelines include discussion of performance, technology options, application design, application development, systems management, and security. Part 3 of the book describes, using the standard sample application, the functions available in WebSphere Commerce Suite, Marketplace Edition for AIX.

This IBM Redbooks publication is part of the Patterns for e-business series and examines how Composite patterns can be used when developing e-commerce Web sites using WebSphere Commerce Business Edition. In particular, it describes the Sell-Side Hub composite pattern and how it can assist architects and designers who have been asked to develop an e-Marketplace using WebSphere Commerce Business Edition. This book is intended for architects, designers and developers. It develops a technical architecture based on requirements common to e-Marketplaces that are Sell-Side Hubs. In developing this architecture, the book envisages an imaginary customer with realistic requirements, then follows a representative project development life cycle for this customer. The steps documented in this book include the following. Requirements gathering Understanding the business problem System overview Operational overview Detailed design Implementation Implementation samples.