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Synopsis
Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 provides a COM-based framework and suite of tools that can help you build and manage effective web sites - in particular e-commerce solutions - on the Windows 2000 platform. It supports catalog management, user profiling, content targeting, and business analytics, as well as providing a component-based 'pipeline' framework to simplify the implementation of linear business logic.
This book explores the most important areas of the Commerce Server 2000 product, taking you through from product installation, and configuring and customizing the ready-made e-commerce solution sites, to low-level application of the component framework, integration with third party components and external systems, and site migration from Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition.
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Review
Microsoft's Commerce Server 2000 replaces Site Server 3.0. As Professional Commerce Server 2000 Programming points out, CS2K is really a collection of applications (including the new BizDesk, IIS, SQL Server, Active Directory etc), templates, scripts, MMC Snap-Ins (COM objects) and other bits and pieces. It shows different faces to managers, developers and end users. By nature it's designed to be extensible so its edges are fuzzy.
In theory, CS2K can be used to deploy a working e-commerce site and all necessary back-end support straight out of the box. In practice you usually have to customise various parts of the product for each site deployed.
CS2K trades ease of use for massive internal complexity. To customise it effectively you have to understand its architecture and know which files support which features using what formats.
Professional Commerce Server 2000 Programming does this by taking a functional approach. It examines Profiling and Authentication, the Product Catalogue System, Pipelining, Business Analytics and so on, as if they were separate products (which, of course, some of them are).
Professional Commerce Server 2000 Programming consumes more paper explaining where features are, what they do and how to access them than actually programming anything. It also fails to tell a story, reading instead as a collection of somewhat unappetising recipes, albeit recipes for success. If you've bought CS2K you'll make faster progress if you have this book by your side--just don't expect to particularly enjoy the process. --Steve Patient
From the Publisher
This book is for experienced developers familiar with implementing web solutions on the Windows 2000 platform who wish to utilize the rich, flexible, and robust environment afforded by Commerce Server 2000. You will find this book invaluable, whether you are new to the Microsoft Enterprise Servers or a seasoned Site Server 3.0 CE developer looking to upgrade to Commerce Server 2000.
Technical Requirements:
A full discussion of both the hardware and software required to run all of the example code in this book is provided in Chapter 1, but as a rough guide you should have a minimum of:
At least a Pentium II, 450 MHz computer with 128 MB of RAM (256 preferred) and 3 GB of hard disk space
Windows 2000
Internet Explorer 5.5
IIS
SQL Server 2000
Commerce Server 2000
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