AJAX Based Online Shopping Application

This document briefly explains the building of an e-commerce web application that
implemented AJAX as defined for the latest available Web 2.0 technologies. It is a major
intent of the project to introduce selected company and consumers an e-commerce web
application that features increases in its interactivity, speed, functionality and usability.
The web application is meant for the chosen SME Company to promote and make sales
of their products through the internet more efficiently and effectively. Previously,
customers for the company were people local to the company location. Deals were often
handled face to face. Fortunately, this can be very much more improved by
implementations taken by the project. Instead of only relying on sales made at their sales
office, the products will be put onto display as for purchase on the new web application.
Another important task of this project is also to improve the communications between
seller and buyer. The seller or company contact details are provided at the web
application. The project also worked on improving the methods of holding related
business deals and transactions to be more efficiently done and secure. This is as well to
expand their business into a much larger market hence increasing the opportunities of
producing more profits and company size. This project is also motivated to change the
users experience in browsing web applications. In the past few years and as it still is now,
much of the internet applications rely on the server-client model. Other than the quality
of existing web applications designs, the physical attributes of the networking local to
each user distinguish one experience from another. The implementations made in this
project overcome problems that may arise from that aspect. For example, people that had
previously been unnecessarily put to wait just for their page reloads to appear can now
have faster response from the web application. One of the major causes to this is the
ability ofAJAX to make asynchronous calls to the web application server.