Title: Experiences with middleware and mobile agents in an e-commerce European project

Authors: Francisco Valera, Anastasia Kaltabani, Irene Sygkouna, Maria Strimpakou, Miltiades Anagnostou, Enrique Vazquez, Luis Bellido

Addresses: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganes (Madrid), Spain. ' National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. ' National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. ' National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. ' National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. ' Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. ' Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain

Abstract: This paper presents several experiences and conclusions about the usage of the J2EE middleware platform in an e-commerce mediation framework, and introduces mobile agent possibilities within the same environment. The main conclusions are taken from the Smart-EC project, where J2EE and mobility are considered as a value added in its architecture. Other advanced technologies such as XML based multi-device publishing and the utilisation of e-commerce ontologies to handle static and dynamic aspects of complex services or to control their transactional properties, are also considered in the project.

Keywords: distributed environment; e-commerce; J2EE; mobile agents; ontology; service brokering.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIEM.2004.004937

International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, 2004 Vol.2 No.2, pp.163 - 177

Published online: 26 Jul 2004 *

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