E Commerce Technical Components
E Commerce Technical Components
Components
Dr. Archana Shrivastava
Technical Components of E-commerce
• Client or PC work station:Client (computing), hardware or software that accesses a remote
service on another computer
• Transaction server: A transaction processing system (TPS) or transaction server is a software
system, or software/hardware combination, that supports transaction processing.
• Database server:A database server is a computer program that provides database services to
other computer programs or to computers, as defined by the client–server model. The term may
also refer to a computer dedicated to running such a program.
• Database transaction:A transaction symbolizes a unit of work performed within
a database management system (or similar system) against a database, and treated in a coherent
and reliable way independent of othertransactions. A transaction generally represents any
change in a database.
• Router:A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks.
Routers perform the traffic directing functions on the Internet. A data packet is
typically forwarded from one router to another router through the networks that constitute
an internetwork until it reaches its destination node
• Internet Communication line
Router
Internet Communication line
Transaction server
Database Server