IBM WebSphere Commerce is a J2EE-based product which provides a platform for developers to write an integrated extensible solution that adds value in customer-centric online business. WebSphere Commerce allows developers to customize its functionality according to current business demands so that the integration of specialized business functionality like auctions, third party shipping rate & tax calculation within WebSphere Commerce is possible by using Web Services & XML. eBay is the world's online marketplace where community of individuals and merchants has equal opportunity to buy and sell new or used goods at fair prices

This article series demonstrates how to use IBM WebSphere Business Integration V6.0 products to model, assemble, deploy, and manage a business process in an end-to-end solution using WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server, and WebSphere Business Monitor.

The emergence of service-oriented frameworks results from the evolution of software development and implementation over the last 20 years. Our industry has evolved from monolithic applications and hard-to-manage client/server solutions and has now discovered that the incremental development of components, enabled via a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), increases the quality of applications, speeds development of new solutions, and addresses the requirements of business stakeholders better.

You don't have to look any further than your own driveway to get a sense of some of the challenges facing the automotive industry. First, is the type or brand of vehicle you're driving now different from your previous vehicles? The answer is likely yes. The days when buyers bought a Chevrolet, Ford, or another brand again and again are largely over.

This is the second in a two-part series of articles introducing the benefits of a hub-and-spoke architecture and IBM's WebSphere Business Integration (BI) Server. In the first article, we detailed the financial and technical benefits of using a hub-and-spoke design, such as reduction in software maintenance costs, overall simplicity compared to point-to-point programs, ease of general administration, and a more modular design allowing the business logic to be application independent.

The most basic yet challenging problem of business integration is reconciling differences between data and messages within the enterprise. Enterprises have multiple application systems that hold data related to the data in other applications. The problem is the way in which those data are expressed - the semantic (or meaning) and syntactic (or format) incompatibilities between the disparate data models and representations used by applications.

There are a handful of enterprise application integration (EAI) products aimed at helping small, medium, and large businesses integrate enterprise assets to reduce costs and improve communications. This article is the first of a two-part series introducing IBM's EAI solution, WebSphere Business Integration Server, and its benefits.

This article describes how the IDE can be utilized as a common platform for both developers and business experts, how the development process is accelerated, and how costs are reduced. The integrated IDE supports free choice of architecture for using business logic.

This article explores certain approaches that will result in a robust integration solution. Messaging technology is designed to deal with requirements. Home-grown solutions can face significant challenges to meet these needs.