XML-driven Homogeneity in E-commerce Applications 1
Robert Andrei Buchmann, Babes Bolyai · 2006
XML vocabularies open new doors for Web applications in general and e-business applications in particular, by inducing a new level of homogeneity and interoperability and by adding new value to traditional data and data structures. Whether XML is used as a data medium, as a data repository or as a presentation source, it is able to provide a backbone which increases application modularity, homogeneity and connectivity. This paper provides an overview for a potential e-commerce application architecture which is intended to improve some software quality parameters and bring dynamic web pages closer to the 3-tier principles, while keeping clear client-server modularity. The Macromedia Flash XML parsing implementation is used to build client-side XML packages which are processed along the XML backbone of the presented model, through an abstract XML gate that clearly separates client and server modules.