Summary
With this rise in the usage of digital objects, the business requirements for an e-commerce system has grown dramatically. A business needs to be adaptable and change quickly when the market changes. To achieve this, a business needs a system that utilizes dynamically adjustable rule sets, each performing different business requirements.
Image purchasing, pricing, and control of the order process are best handled and centered around metadata and roles. This focuses the whole process around the data and gets away from rigid structures which might be hard to adjust when the need arises.
An e-commerce system should work equally well on the Internet via a HTML browser as well as on portable devices using applications and web services, such as the iPad, iPhone and other smart-phone devices.
In Chapter 7, Techniques for Creating a Multimedia Database, focus now moves to how to configure an Oracle database to manage and store multimedia.
