This Mini-Project course will discuss and practice software technologies for constructing Electronic Commerce systems.
The students will be divided into 5-6 groups, each group will be responsible for one or two components of a typical E-commerce system.
Some of the components will be: Vendors or Shops, Customers, Bank, Auction site, Electronic payment system, A Monitoring database and report system.
Each group will be responsible for 3 tasks: developing its own components(s), giving  a lecture on its component and its software technology,
and testing  at least 2 other components.
Each group will select a group leader which will divide the work between its members.

The lectures will be divided into three categories:

•  Lectures by the Instructor on Electronic commerce, on the overall system structure, and on the Software engineering technology required..

• Review sessions in which the class serves as a Design Review team reviewing the documents prepared by the various teams.

• Technical lectures by students on some technical topics such as: WEB development tools, Java advanced features (security API, JDBC,etc.), Sockets and  HTTP protocols, Oracle and SQL, Cryptography and Electronic cash

The class will have to follow standard software engineering practices, specifically, preparing the various documents of the Software development cycle such as: Requirements, Specification, High-level design, Detailed design,  Coding and Testing documents..
A final report will have to be submitted detailing both the team own task and the results of its testing of other teams projects.
The software may be developed on a PC or Unix, but the entire E-commerce system must run on the Department  network.
 

The same grade will be given to all team members, the only grades possible are: 95, 90, 85, 75 and Fail.