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e-business is about taking full advantage of the Internet to meet your business goals. For developers, IBM's Network Computing Framework (NCF) provides a software roadmap for creating e-business solutions. The framework leverages Java and the JavaBeans component technology to provide a consistent, platform-independent programming model. With Java, developers can create a variety of e-business solutions using a single, cohesive development environment. Java also provides all of the benefits of object-oriented programming, including greater developer productivity and code reuse.

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Learn about the many sides of e-business by visiting IBM's e-business Web site; then sample the following collection of whitepapers and articles to learn more about Java's critical role in providing a bridge between Internet technologies and your enterprise's existing systems, applications and data.

Java and IBM e-business Solutions
As IBM's customers move from the world of doing business as usual to one that is based on e-business, there are a number of new Web-based technologies available today to help them shape this new way of doing business.

Java and Network Computers are two key technologies from IBM that assist businesses in creating e-business value. IBM's ability to combine these Web-based technologies with customers' existing IT environment(s) allows businesses to extend their reach, lower their costs, and create new value for their customers and themselves.
 

The Evolution of e-business: How Java is Changing the Marketplace
With e-business and Java, IBM is leading the way to organizing entire companies around serving the new online marketplace. In order to be truly successful, companies need to do more than make a Web site and take orders, which is the basic model for today’s electronic commerce. They need to have the proper infrastructure in place to fully take advantage of the new opportunities in this marketplace. In short, they have to become e-businesses.
 
Enterprising Ingredients: How Java Holds e-business Together
e-business solutions enable customers to dramatically expand their product market, foster customer loyalty, speed time to market, and grow their top and bottom line. The extraordinary momentum behind Java is due largely to the fact that Java is ideally suited for solving these business problems.
 
Network Computing Framework
The Network Computing Framework (NCF) is an open, standards-based model for creating expandable e-business solutions. Java is a key element of the NCF due to its unique features and flexibility.
 
Network Computing Framework Programming Overview
This draft document explains how developers can use the NCF to build e-business solutions that leverage the Internet while taking full advantage of existing enterprise systems, applications, and data.
 
IBM's Java Web-Based Network Management: Easy Manageability -- From Anywhere
The first generation of Java-enabled network management products, including IBM's pioneering Nways Workgroup Manager for Windows NT, demonstrates the potential of Java Web-based network management over the corporate intranet. Using Java technology, Nways Workgroup Manager for Windows NT presents real-time and historical information and provides device status in real time for campus networks. Find out how IBM intends to expand to the campus through its AIX-based Nways Campus Manager network management offerings and, ultimately, across the entire enterprise.
 
Persistent Java Objects for AS/400
Businesses depend upon their computers to hold their data persistently, securely, and with integrity. And if anything should go wrong, the data store had better do everything it can to recover the data. In short, businesses need for their data to be in object databases. With the help of persistent pools, the AS/400 will soon have the ability to build Java objects that are persistent, shared, scaleable, secure, transactional, queryable, and recoverable.
 
Java and SNA: A Case Study
Intranets are hot, so you need to know all the options for working with them; in particular, the options concerning IP and SNA. While IP provides many benefits, a large percentage of enterprise data resides on mainframes and is accessed primarily through SNA. The API tool kit described in this paper provides SNA bindings for Java, allowing programmers to write LU6.2 programs in Java to access critical business data and resources.
 

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SNA for Java
With SNA for Java, applets can be downloaded natively over LU6.2 networks, and can use the SNA's Common Programming Interface–Communications (CPI-C). Using CPI-C, applets can interface with existing LU6.2 servers or with new servers also written in Java. In either case, client cost-of-ownership is reduced because application software doesn't have to be installed or maintained on the client.
 

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