E-business globalization solution design guide : getting started / [Xiao Hui Zhu ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhu, Xiao Hui.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic commerce.

Physical Description:

xiv, 190 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ebusiness globalization solution design guide

Place of Publication:

[White Plains, N.Y.] : IBM, 2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Internet transcends national boundaries and geographical barriers. Many e-business entities have sought help from IBM in extending their e-business worldwide. IBM’s own marketing messages have stressed the global aspect of e-business, and our customers therefore expect IBM to be able to provide the solutions. Take a simple e-commerce application, for example. A company wants to set up a Web site to sell to customers from all over the world. Studies also have shown that users are much more likely to purchase from a Web site in their own language. With the worldwide growth of e-business, globalization is not only an add-on value but a must for global e-business applications. In fact, globalization has become an architecture in the realm of e-business. The key to globalization architecture is the Single Executable, which is the proper design and execution of systems, software, services, and procedures so that one instance of software, executing on a single server or end-user machine, can process multilingual data and present culturally correct information (for example, collation, date, and number formats). This IBM Redbooks publication presents a globalization architecture, a working example, and an accompanying set of methodologies. It explains from the customer’s point of view how to plan and then design a multilingual solution with the IBM-recommended globalization application architecture, how it works throughout the application development cycle, and how the working example validates the soundness of this architecture.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Part 1 Introduction

Chapter 1. What is globalization?

Chapter 2. Why is globalization necessary?

Chapter 3. How to implement globalization

Part 2 Globalization application design

Chapter 4. Single Executable

Chapter 5. Unicode support

Chapter 6. Locale model

Chapter 7. Localization pack

Chapter 8. Input and output of multilingual data

Chapter 9. Linguistic services

Chapter 10. Global Business Object

Chapter 11. Localization

Part 3 Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo: A working example

Chapter 12. Overview

12.1 Multilingual front-end

12.1.1 Multilingual user interface

12.1.2 Multilingual main functions

12.2 Multilingual Web Services

Chapter 13. Environment

13.1 Architecture

13.1.1 Development environment

13.1.2 Runtime environment

13.2 Product globalization capabilities

13.2.1 IBM WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition V4.0

13.2.2 IBM DB2 Universal Database

Chapter 14. A development methodology for globalized applications

Chapter 15. Design and development

15.1 Single Executable

15.2 Unicode support

15.3 Locale model

15.3.1 Structure of locale model

15.3.2 Identification of user locale

15.3.3 Implementation of locale-sensitive features

15.3.4 Locale-sensitive features displayed in Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo

15.4 Localization pack

15.5 Machine translation

15.5.1 What is machine translation?

15.5.2 WebSphere Translation Server

15.5.3 Solution for Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo

15.6 Global Business Object

15.7 Localization

15.7.1 Locale model

15.7.2 GBO

15.7.3 Localization packs

Chapter 16. Testing

16.1 Function testing

16.2 Translation testing.

16.3 Globalization feature testing

16.4 Linguistic testing

16.5 Browser testing

16.6 Usability testing

Chapter 17. Maintenance

17.1 Adding new languages

17.1.1 Locale-related computing

17.1.2 Language-dependent content

17.2 Changing or adding globalization features

Part 4 Appendixes

Appendix A. Server-side installation and configuration for Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo

A.1 IBM HTTP Server V1.3.19

A.1.1 Install IBM HTTP Server

A.1.2 Configure IBM HTTP Server

A.2 IBM DB2 Universal Database V7.2.1

A.2.1 Install DB2 Universal Database Server

A.2.2 Configure the DB2 Universal Database Server

A.3 IBM WebSphere Application Server V4.0

A.3.1 Install WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition V4.0

A.3.2 Configure WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition V4.0

A.4 IBM WebSphere Translation Server V1.0

A.5 UDDI Registry Center

A.6 IBM WebSphere Personalization Server V4.0

Appendix B. Client-side installation and configuration for Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo

B.1 Installation

B.2 Configuration

B.2.1 System settings configuration

B.2.2 Browser settings configuration

Appendix C. CSS and artwork globalization

C.1 How to make CSS Single Executable

C.1.1 Avoid locale-related restrictions

C.2 Avoid language-dependent restrictions

C.3 Further considerations for bi-directional data display

Glossary

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

IBM Redbooks collections

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"December 2002."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

191662387