e-business Globalization Solution Design Guide: Getting Started

e-business Globalization Solution Design Guide: Getting Started

by Buck Stearns, Xiao Hui Zhu, Ming Zhu Cui, Bei Shu, Yi Zhen Xu, Xia Li, Ming Li, Fei Qu
Released December 2002
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

The Internet transcends national boundaries and geographical barriers. Many e-business entities have sought help from IBM in extending their e-business worldwide. IBM’s own marketing messages have stressed the global aspect of e-business, and our customers therefore expect IBM to be able to provide the solutions. Take a simple e-commerce application, for example. A company wants to set up a Web site to sell to customers from all over the world. Studies also have shown that users are much more likely to purchase from a Web site in their own language.

With the worldwide growth of e-business, globalization is not only an add-on value but a must for global e-business applications. In fact, globalization has become an architecture in the realm of e-business.

The key to globalization architecture is the Single Executable, which is the proper design and execution of systems, software, services, and procedures so that one instance of software, executing on a single server or end-user machine, can process multilingual data and present culturally correct information (for example, collation, date, and number formats).

This IBM Redbooks publication presents a globalization architecture, a working example, and an accompanying set of methodologies. It explains from the customer’s point of view how to plan and then design a multilingual solution with the IBM-recommended globalization application architecture, how it works throughout the application development cycle, and how the working example validates the soundness of this architecture.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  3. Part 1: Introduction
    1. Chapter 1: What is globalization? (1/2)
    2. Chapter 1: What is globalization? (2/2)
    3. Chapter 2: Why is globalization necessary?
    4. Chapter 3: How to implement globalization
  4. Part 2: Globalization application design
    1. Chapter 4: Single Executable
    2. Chapter 5: Unicode support
    3. Chapter 6: Locale model (1/2)
    4. Chapter 6: Locale model (2/2)
    5. Chapter 7: Localization pack (1/2)
    6. Chapter 7: Localization pack (2/2)
    7. Chapter 8: Input and output of multilingual data (1/2)
    8. Chapter 8: Input and output of multilingual data (2/2)
    9. Chapter 9: Linguistic services (1/2)
    10. Chapter 9: Linguistic services (2/2)
    11. Chapter 10: Global Business Object (1/2)
    12. Chapter 10: Global Business Object (2/2)
    13. Chapter 11: Localization
  5. Part 3: Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo: A working example
    1. Chapter 12: Overview
      1. Multilingual front-end (1/2)
      2. Multilingual front-end (2/2)
        1. Multilingual user interface
        2. Multilingual main functions
      3. Multilingual Web Services
    2. Chapter 13: Environment
      1. Architecture
        1. Development environment
        2. Runtime environment
      2. Product globalization capabilities (1/2)
      3. Product globalization capabilities (2/2)
        1. IBM WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition V4.0
        2. IBM DB2 Universal Database
    3. Chapter 14: A development methodology for globalized applications
    4. Chapter 15: Design and development
      1. Single Executable
      2. Unicode support
      3. Locale model (1/2)
      4. Locale model (2/2)
        1. Structure of locale model
        2. Identification of user locale
        3. Implementation of locale-sensitive features
        4. Locale-sensitive features displayed in Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo
      5. Localization pack
      6. Machine translation
        1. What is machine translation?
        2. WebSphere Translation Server
        3. Solution for Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo
      7. Global Business Object
      8. Localization
        1. Locale model
        2. GBO
        3. Localization packs
    5. Chapter 16: Testing
      1. Function testing
      2. Translation testing
      3. Globalization feature testing
      4. Linguistic testing
      5. Browser testing
      6. Usability testing
    6. Chapter 17: Maintenance
      1. Adding new languages
        1. Locale-related computing
        2. Language-dependent content
      2. Changing or adding globalization features
  6. Part 4: Appendixes
    1. Appendix A: Server-side installation and configuration for Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo
      1. IBM HTTP Server V1.3.19
      2. Install IBM HTTP Server
      3. Configure IBM HTTP Server
      4. IBM DB2 Universal Database V7.2.1
      5. Install DB2 Universal Database Server
      6. Configure the DB2 Universal Database Server
      7. IBM WebSphere Application Server V4.0
      8. Install WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition V4.0
      9. Configure WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition V4.0
      10. IBM WebSphere Translation Server V1.0
      11. UDDI Registry Center
      12. IBM WebSphere Personalization Server V4.0
    2. Appendix B: Client-side installation and configuration for Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo
      1. Installation
      2. Configuration
      3. System settings configuration
      4. Browser settings configuration
    3. Appendix C: CSS and artwork globalization
      1. How to make CSS Single Executable
      2. Avoid locale-related restrictions
      3. Avoid language-dependent restrictions
      4. Further considerations for bi-directional data display
  7. Glossary (1/2)
  8. Glossary (2/2)
  9. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
      1. Other resources
    2. Referenced Web sites
    3. How to get IBM Redbooks
      1. IBM Redbooks collections
  10. Index (1/3)
  11. Index (2/3)
  12. Index (3/3)
  13. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: e-business Globalization Solution Design Guide: Getting Started
  • Author(s): Buck Stearns, Xiao Hui Zhu, Ming Zhu Cui, Bei Shu, Yi Zhen Xu, Xia Li, Ming Li, Fei Qu
  • Release date: December 2002
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None