It reviews five of the many issues that challenge enterprise
Web applications: resource contention; managing transactions; application resiliency;
geographic diversity; and exception perception management. It presents five key
methods that mitigate these risks, achieving high-availability and high-performance
goals.
??? The fifth chapter is entitled ???The Demise of a Business-to-Business Portal???. It describes
the development and ultimate demise of the Bizewest portal in the Western
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Region of Melbourne, Australia. This chapter indicates that no matter how good the
portal software, the final success or failure of the portal is primarily related to how
well it is adopted and used. It begins by discussing the concept and benefits of Web
portals and especially those that are applicable to SMEs as the Bizewest portal was
primarily aimed at SMEs. It describes how the portal was conceived and developed,
and the difficulty that its proponents had in persuading regional SMEs to change their
business processes to make best use of online trading with each other.
??? The sixth chapter is entitled ???A Security Solution for Web-Services Based Grid Applications???.
It introduces a Web services-based virtual organization solution, which is
designed to enhance the security performance of WSGrid, which is a ???Web services???
based application for composing computational grids.
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