e-Marketplace composite pattern: Guidelines - AIX

The last step in designing your e-business application is to review the guidelines for how to design, develop, deploy, and manage e-business applications. The guidelines help you customize the solution design, maximize performance, and select which platforms you want to deliver the solution on.

• Pay attention to all components of the solution.
• Understand in detail the interfaces and flows between the components.
• Plan for growth in the design.
• Use the latest levels of infrastructure and system software.
• Cache as much as possible.

The guidelines and implementation information are contained in an IBM Redbook entitled e-Marketplace Pattern using WebSphere Commerce Suite, MarketPlace Edition Patterns for e-business Series. This information can be useful to anyone designing an e-Marketplace solution. The following guidelines are chapters of the book.

Performance guidelines		Chapter 5 describes performance guidelines and discusses some general topics to consider when troubleshooting or tuning performance in an e-Marketplace application.
Technology options		Chapter 6 looks at the technologies that you should consider when developing e-Marketplace applications, also known as hubs, using the WebSphere Commerce Suite Marketplace Edition.
Application design guidelines		Applications running in Marketplace Edition are Java®-based applications that run under the WebSphere Application Server. Accordingly, many of the considerations involved in the design of these applications are similar to those for conventional e-commerce sites developed with WebSphere Commerce Suite 4.1. Chapter 7 presents these considerations in the context of the components, technologies, and techniques available to you within the Marketplace Edition application environment.
Application development guidelines		Chapter 8 presents guidelines for managing a successful Internet application development project. The application development project road map, discussed in Chapter 8, is a set of work products that help in the documenting of the application design and help in the management of the application development.
Systems management guidelines		Chapter 9 focuses on the activities involved in systems management and security, including: General systems management guidelines Product-specific systems management guidelines Security guidelines Backup and recovery guidelines

Congratulations, you've completed all the steps to design your e-business application! There are some additional related links that you might find helpful, including customer experiences, test reports, and redbooks.