Declarative Specification of Electronic Commerce Applications

"Combining the existing semantics of EDI within an XML framework also makes possible large-scale automation of electronic commerce." WebWeek XML/EDI Home Page In this short paper, we consider the use of a declarative language (the ActiveView language) for specifying electronic commerce applications and, in general, a wide range of distributed applications based on sharing data and exchanging messages. The fact that the language is declarative allows the fast design, development and deployment and the flexible maintenance of such applications. The prototype ActiveView system that we implemented acts as an application generator that produces customizable Web applications with persistent data and basic workflow management

Declarative Specification of Electronic Commerce Applications £

”Combining the existing semantics of EDI within an XML framework also makes possible large-scale automation of electronic commerce. ” WebWeekXML/EDI Home Page In this short paper, we consider the use of a declarative language (the ActiveView language) for specifying electronic commerce applications and, in general, a wide range of distributed applications based on sharing data and exchanging messages. The fact that the language is declarative allows the fast design, development and deployment and the flexible maintenance of such applications. The prototype ActiveView system that we implemented acts as an application generator that produces customizable Web applications with persistent data and basic workflow management.