Development of an educational supply chain information system using object web technology
Fan‐Tien Cheng, Haw‐Ching Yang, Eric Huang · Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers · 2002
With the explosive growth of the Web, it becomes essential for developing a program to educate students to comprehend how to develop large‐scale software systems for Internet applications. One of the major enabling technologies for constructing e‐Commerce applications is the Object Web. Supply chains are typical large‐scale applications of e‐Commerce. Therefore, this work presents a collaborative and event‐driven educational Supply Chain Information System (SCIS) by using Object Web technology. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is applied to analyze and design the SCIS framework that contains two major components: the Information Coordinator Component and the Agent Component. Demonstration results indicate that this SCIS framework provides a collaborative, event‐driven, object‐oriented, and agent‐based infrastructure for the supply chain members to mutually exchange information efficiently. Educational aspects concerning development procedures, development tools, software reuse, and a system interface for distributed object‐oriented software engineering courses are also emphasized in this paper.