E commerce

Business-to-Business (B2B) applications provide new opportunities for businesses to leverage emerging technologies to build their businesses. B2B is beneficial to businesses because it has the potential to dramatically lower costs. It makes communication easier and faster by using new technologies and standards. Also, B2B applications help automate communication between companies. Apart from streamlining the process, B2B application helps reduce the potential for errors and helps provide better goods and services. There are many different platforms and systems interacting with each other. These interactions require a platform neutral standard for data exchange. One interesting technology that can fill up this requirement is eXtensible Markup Language (XML). XML plays a very critical role in e-commerce as XML combines well with many programming languages. XML can be used in many aspects of business technology such as, to display content, handle REDO ASSIGNMENT Developing E-Commerce Applications with XML Page 2 of 4 Level 3 Asia Pacific University Of Technology And Innovation 2014 payments, reporting and connecting to other systems. As XML is standardised and platformneutral, XML provides an excellent framework for exchanging data. You are required to develop a small B2B e-commerce application using XML. You may consider the following B2B applications that: i. facilitating transactions for goods/services between companies ii. selling goods/services on the Internet to businesses, and supply chain integration iii. sharing enterprise and organizational information Your task in this assignment is to create an interactive and dynamic website using client/server side technologies and XML. You will need to meet various implementation requirements, but the actual content of the website is entirely up to you, however it must be within the context of this module. Also, you are expected to provide good interface design principles and a full functional navigation