Patterns for Business-to-consumer E-Commerce Applications

TL;DR

This paper presents a set of design patterns and a domain model for B2C e-commerce applications, facilitating application development through a model-driven approach with security considerations.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive domain model with composite patterns for B2C e-commerce, integrating security constraints and supporting model-driven architecture.

Findings

Defines patterns for key e-commerce components

Creates a composite domain model for B2C applications

Incorporates security constraints into the model

Abstract

E-commerce is one of the most important web applications. We present here a set of patterns that describe shopping carts, products, catalogue, customer accounts, shipping, and invoices. We combine them in the form of composite patterns, which in turn make up a domain model for business-to-consumer e-commerce. We also indicate how to add security constraints to this model. This domain model can be used as a computation-independent model from which specific applications can be produced using a model-driven architecture approach.