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2009-2010 University Catalog

EC 511 - E-commerce Basic IT Infrastructure

Credits: 3
Discusses basic networking infrastructure used in e-commerce environments and typical multitiered e-commerce architectures of e-commerce sites. Includes ISO OSI reference architecture; functions, main features of IP protocol; functions, main features of TCP protocol including connection establishment, error control, and congestion control; HTTP protocol; and load balancers, web servers, application servers, and database servers in e-commerce site architecture. Discusses software architecture elements such as servlets, transaction processing services, remote method invocation, CGI scripts, and active server pages.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week
3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week
0