BizBlast.com Uses Java and HotSpot to Simplify Online Web-Store Creation.DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 1999-- BizBlast.com has unveiled a new system that makes it very easy for Web designers to integrate Web stores into their clients' Web sites. Unlike most "shopping-cart" systems, the BizBlast Transaction Server can handle six different types of Web transactions -- Tangible Purchase Transactions (sell a product and ship it); Electronic Purchase Transactions (sell a product, transmit it over the Internet, and provide a way for the buyer to "unlock" the product); Member Transactions (sell memberships or Web-site access), Billing or Payment Transactions (no product changes hands, but a bill is paid or donation made), Dynamic Transactions (a transaction such as an auction or some kind of bidding process), and Information Transactions (with information of some kind flowing to and from a database on the server). "Many designers have hit a wall," explains BizBlast.com President Peter Kent. "They can design, but they don't have the technical skills to work with most shopping-cart and transaction-processing systems. The existing products are often very expensive or very complicated to work with, so we built a system that makes it extremely easy for a designer to embed em·bed also im·bed v. em·bed·ded, em·bed·ding, em·beds v.tr. 1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale. a transaction system into a Web site." Integrating the product into a Web site is a matter of learning a few special tags, and embedding 1. (mathematics) embedding - One instance of some mathematical object contained with in another instance, e.g. a group which is a subgroup. 2. (theory) embedding - (domain theory) A complete partial order F in [X -> Y] is an embedding if them into the Web pages. The BizBlast Transaction Server does the rest, placing the appropriate components -- product information, drop-down list drop-down list - pull-down list boxes, shopping-carts, and so on -- into position. This removes the need for programming scripts, thereby reducing costs and improving delivery time. The system is also infinitely customizable. If a client requires something unusual -- a catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. company may need shipping rates that match its paper catalog, for instance -- BizBlast.com can build the custom component and plug it into the system. The e-commerce system designed by BizBlast uses Java servlets See servlet. (World-Wide Web) Java servlet - (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. and Sun Microsystems' recently released Java HotSpot Performance Engine to ensure fast, reliable operation. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mike Ceranski, BizBlast's Chief Technical Officer, "Java servlets are inherently more efficient than CGI scripts (Common Gateway Interface script) A relatively compact program written in a language such as Perl, Tcl, C or C++ that processes data on a Web server. It is commonly used to process a query from the user that was entered on an HTML page (Web page) and returned as an or ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). , and when combined with HotSpot, the speed and efficiency are awesome. We also get platform independence allowing us to put the BizBlast e-commerce system on whatever computers best fit our needs." Aside from standard features, the e-commerce system also offers instant real-time online credit-card processing. "We've even allowed merchants to determine how they handle the Address Verification System The Address Verification System (AVS) is a system used to verify the identity of the person claiming to own the credit card. The system will check the billing address of the credit card provided by the user with the address on file at the credit card company. codes returned by the credit-card networks," explains Peter Kent, "to help reduce credit-card fraud. As far as we know, ours is the only e-commerce system targeted at small businesses that offers this feature." For more information about BizBlast.com's e-commerce system and beta-test offer, visit the company's website at http://BizBlast.com/store/, or contact Mike Ceranski, at Mike@BizBlast.com. |
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