Features
Interchange is the open source alternative to commercial
commerce servers and "best of breed" application
server/component applications. Interchange is one of the most
powerful tools available to automate and database-enable your
web site or build online applications. It's also one of the
easiest tools to learn, plus it's open source, making it the
most open and least expensive solution to implement.
If you've been thinking of using tools from BEA, IBM,
Microsoft, BroadVision, Intershop, Blue Martini, Open Market,
Mercantec, Allaire, or Interworld to build your web site or
online application, you'll be making a serious mistake if you
fail to evaluate Interchange before you make your decision. If
you've been thinking of building a system by hand in Java, Perl,
ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion, or any other environment, you should
consider the time savings that building on the Interchange
platform may bring you.
Interchange is well suited for a variety of purposes,
including: sales, order processing, content management, customer
service, reporting and analysis, and personalization.
Interchange has been implemented for traditional retail sales,
digital goods delivery, B2B parts re-ordering, non-commerce
content management, auctions, order status checking, supply
chain management, project management, online collaboration, and
even an MP3 Jukebox. Interchange can be used as a completely
self-contained standalone product or as part of a larger system.
It can be integrated with payment processing services, ERP
systems, point-of-sale systems, accounting systems, external
content management systems, Java-based application servers,
sales force automation systems, customer relationship management
systems, email campaign management systems, and remote databases
on virtually any platform.
At its core, Interchange is a flexible, high performance
application server that handles state management,
authentication, session maintenance, click trails, filtering,
URL encodings, security policy. It's made up of the following
components:
- database abstraction layer
- generic templating system
- transaction routing rules
- customer information object
- universal localization scheme
- security blackout definition
- profiles
- filters
- search language
- session management
Some of Interchange's many modules are transaction management,
pricing, personalization, payment processing, reporting,
customer service, and search.
Interchange templates are simply HTML page with specialized
Interchange-specific markup tags called ITL (Interchange Tag
Language). ITL allows for a highly customizable combination of
components to be displayed on the page, both static and dynamic.
There are several types of ITL tags, including:
- built-in tags - A library of pre-built tags that enable
Interchange functionality
- user tags - custom designed tags that can be created for
any purpose
- localization - tags that allow multi-language or
multi-locale implementation
- "Perl" and "ASP" tags - allow the
insertion of Perl or ASP code into templates
If you need functionality that Interchange doesn't yet
provide, build it yourself or have Red Hat's professional
services group do it for you. If you develop new functionality
yourself you'll then have the option of either expanding and
supporting that functionality through subsequent versions of
Interchange, or you can submit that work to the Interchange
project and the community will keep it up-to-date and maybe even
expand it.
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