AN APPROACH TO RETRIEVE LOGICAL SCHEMA FROM SHOPPING CART DATABASE

Computer Engineering

In this paper, we present an approach to retrieve logical schema from shopping cart database. In general, an e-commerce system is built by following one of two approaches. The first approach is the customization approach using a suite of tools such as IBM’s Web Sphere Commerce Suite. For example, the Commerce Suite provides tools for creating the infrastructure of a virtual shopping mall, including catalog templates, registration, shopping cart, order and payment processing, and a generalized database. The second approach is the bottom-up development of a system in-house by experts of an individual company. In this case, the developer is manually building a virtual shopping mall with mix-and-match tools. In addition, a database supporting the business model of the e-commerce system must be manually developed. Whether a developer is using the customization or the bottom-up approach, understanding the structure of e-commerce database systems will help the database designers effectively develop and maintain the system.

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