Home Theater Outlet

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Home Theater Outlet

• Using Amazon Web Services
• By Gerald McGill
• Date December 3, 2007

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Project Objectives

• Create a single resource for home theater
  products.
• Differentiation from existing sites with a home
  theater wizard.
• Utilize Amazon services as primary resource for
  product information and sales.

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Home Theater Outlet Hot Buttered Popcorn /
Beyond HD

• Amazon E-Commerce Services (ECS)
• Project Design
• Phased Implementation
• SOA
• Amazon Components
• Technologies
• Orchestration
• Implementation
• Results
• Demo

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Amazon ECS

• Amazon exposes infrastructure using both REST and
  SOAP / HTTP.
• Provide detailed technical documentation and
  implementation examples.
• Provide code libraries for most popular IDEs and
  programming languages.
• Includes C, Visual Basic, Java

• BrowseNodeLookup
• CartAdd
• CartClear
• CartCreate
• CartGet
• CartModify
• CustomerContentLookup
• CustomerContentSearch
• Help
• ItemLookup
• ItemSearch
• ListLookup
• ListSearch
• SellerListingLookup
• SellerListingSearch
• SellerLookup
• SimilarityLookup
• TagLookup
• TransactionLookup

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Project Design Phased Implementation

1. Admin Tasks and Design (complete)
2. Initial Site Build (in-progress)
3. User Community / Forums
4. Looking into 3rd Party applications to increase
   release time.
5. Home Theater Wizard
6. Support from additional personnel.

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Project Design - SOA

• How is it a SOA?
• Application is abstracted into service components
  (front-end, business layer, and data services
  (local and remote)
• Application utilizes a service bus.
• Technology
• Development time binding
• Invoke operations on Amazon servers using REST.
• Invoke basic operations using web services (local
  to this project).
• Track local schema versions using the date
  (Amazon does the same).

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Project Design - Orchestration

• Enterprise Layer
• Front end applications.
• Business Layer
• Abstract several of the intermediary services to
  simply front-end application and encapsulate
  business processes.
• Intermediary Layer
• Combines some of the basic services to create
  more robust operations.
• Basic Layer
• Provides database services and direct access to
  Amazon services.

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Project Design Orchestration (BPEL)

• Cart.ItemAdd
• Get Customer Information
• If the customer has a cart
• Add the item to it
• Else Create a new cart
• Update the customer information with any changes
  to the cart details.
• Return the results from the cart operation.

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Implementation

• Domain Registration by Google
• Hosting by HostMySite.com
• Database MySQL
• Web Server Microsoft IIS 6 on Windows Server
  2003
• IDE Visual Basic 2005
• Amazon ECS Project Library
• MySQL Data Library
• Hot Buttered Popcorn Web Site Project

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Results

• Amazon services are easy to use and provide a
  robust API for electronic commerce.
• Intend to continue development and expand the
  project as mentioned earlier.
• Initial build approximately 70 completed
  functionality.
• Expand on graphics / templates.
• Make some money!

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References

• Amazon ECS documentation
• Hot Buttered Popcorn
• Project Documentation