Introduction

Hi, my name is Shiming Xu, I am in my first trimester of my Master of IT degree at Charles Sturt University. The portfolio has been created for CSU subject ITC 594 E-systems Infrastructure development. The purpose of my blog is to document my progress through the subject that is a part of my mater of Information technology degree with Charles Sturt University. The subject is all about the technologies that support e-business. It outlines issues and procedures in online business application development. As part of the subject it is also necessary to learn the Ruby on Rails application development framework to assist in developing an e-commerce application.


This subject covers the following topics:
1. E-commerce, distributed applications and the internet
2. Clients, servers and distributed paradigms
3. Database servers
4. Web application servers
5. XML – eXtensible Markup Language
6. Distributed objects – RMI and CORBA
7. Internet security
8. Concurrency and transactions
9. Designing distributed systems
10. Bots, agents, spiders and mobile computing
11. Case studies – Further case studies for investigation
12. Systems integration
Well, now to it...