Home Theater Outlet

Using Amazon Web Services

By: Gerald McGillDate: December 3, 2007

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.

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

Amazon ECS

Amazon exposes infrastructure using both REST and SOAP / HTTP.

Provide detailed technical documentation and implementation examples.

Provide code libraries for most popular IDE’s 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

Project Design – Phased Implementation

I. Admin Tasks and Design (complete)

II. Initial Site Build (in-progress)

III. User Community / ForumsI. Looking into 3rd Party applications to

increase release time.

IV. Home Theater WizardI. Support from additional personnel.

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).

Project Design - SOA

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.

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.

Implementation Domain Registration by Google Hosting by HostMySite.com

Database: MySQLWeb Server: Microsoft IIS 6 on Windows

Server 2003 IDE: Visual Basic 2005

Amazon ECS Project LibraryMySQL Data LibraryHot Buttered Popcorn Web Site Project

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!

References

Amazon ECS documentation Hot Buttered Popcorn Project Documentation