1. A study in using e-commerce to facilitate the sales of Rhodes Memorabilia Farisai Mabvudza Uma Rudraraju & George Wells Greg Foster & Presented By…Supervised By…

2. Benefits of E-commerce Easy accessibility 24 hour access to shopping from home Convenience Secure online credit payment options Always up to date Easier maintenance Delivery of goods to your doorstep!

3. The Problem  Alumni in the dark  Postage costs and delays  Limited shopping hours

4. The Solution An Online Web Store - Housing a central repository of memorabilia for sale - Where customers can view and purchase products - Via secure online payment methods Affordable and simple to maintain Dynamic Inspired by

5. Goals Investigation into the development of an affordable, small to medium scaled e-commerce system using Java technologies A practical system: R.U.M – Rhodes University Memorabilia

6. Technologies Used HTML, CSS Javascript Java Server Pages and JavaBeans JavaMail Apache Tomcat Web Server Java Database Connectivity Microsoft Access

7. JSP’s Advantage JavaBean Name: OrderBean.java Properties: SName cardType saCost sCountry sAdd1 expiryDate neighbourCost payment sAdd2 cardNumber otherCost ordered sCity ccvsError cardName delivery sPostcode cardNumberLeft cardNumberRight Recommended Scope: session Example Usage: Diagram showing the OrderBean Property Sheet used in RUM

8. RUM Architecture Client Tier (Thin Client) Web Tier Business Tier Data Tier

9. Development Problems Cross browser compatibility Memorabilia out of stock at Rhodes Tomcat server configuration Problems Bugs inherent in Tomcat web server Microsoft Access annoyances

10. Development Benefits Reusability afforded by fully object-oriented JavaBean classes Good knowledge of - Java Technologies - Web design Teamwork - What the real world needs!

11. Tour of RUM

12. Future Extensions Automatic credit card validation with bank Wishlist Automatic stock control Enforcing customer relationships via marketing and advertising

13. Questions RUM !!!