8.6. Configuring the Altura Merchant Operating System Framework

Today, when a visitor comes to CatalogCity.com or another of Altura's sites, the content and applications presented on the Web page are delivered through the use of HP Bluestone Total-e-Server. Java Servlets running on Total-e-Server manage the interactions between the Web interface and Altura's Microsoft SQL Server database farm.

“We're using plain Java technology with servlets,” explains Jordan Zimmerman, Altura's senior software architect. “We are not currently using EJBs or JSPs for the main application, though we do use JavaMail and JDBC. We were originally going to recode all our original scripts in C++, but thankfully we discovered Java Servlets, which offered a much better ...

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