An authoritative guide to making informed decisions about e-business, this book presents the views of 17 renowned experts in the field who outline the fundamentals of e-business technology. It explores e-business concepts, including the economic underpinnings of the web, open e-business architecture, e-commerce, web server infrastructure, web application development, collaborative computing, web payment, and Java. These concepts are mapped to practical realities through explanations of e-business technologies such as MQSeries, SanFrancisco, TCP/IP, HTML, JavaScript, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Unified Modeling Language (UML), seb security, and pervasive computing. Included is a CD-ROM with IBM and Microsoft software.