The CloudFree Commerce Platform is a flexible and scalable e-commerce platform that provides core commerce services. It allows businesses to build and manage multiple storefronts, marketplaces and portals. The platform provides components for auction sites, storefronts, portals, administration and extensions that integrate with commerce services to provide inventory, customer and order management. It also includes tools for contextual runtime, HTTP application modeling and administration to simplify development and operations.

1. The CloudFree Commerce Platform
Gunnar Wagenknecht
Chief Software Architect, AGETO Service GmbH
Website: http://www.eclipse.org/cloudfree/
Newsgroup: news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.cloudfree
November 20, 2008 | CloudFree

2. Topics
What is CloudFree anyway?
Commerce services, eh?
But I don’t do e-commerce!
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3. CloudFree
It’s a concept – not a product.
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4. The CloudFree Vision
Flexibility
Extensible frameworks
Never compete but integrate
Scalability
Powerful and robust platform
Scale up and down without hassle
(from standalone to multi-cluster)
Simplicity
Operational convenience
Easy, rich and stable APIs
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5. Flexibility
Super Store Inc.
Website
Live
Staging
Amazon
eBay
Book Store
Website
US
UK
DE
eBay
US
UK
Electronics
…
Website 2.0
Another Inc.
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6. Scalability
DE
UK CA
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7. Simplicity
Product Repository
Context
Plug-in
Commerce
Services Monitoring
Order Processing
Rules Plug-in
Distributed
Processing User Authentication
Service Plug-in
Repository
Specific Integration
Plug-in
Equinox
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8. CloudFree Components
Auction Storefront Portals Admin Extensions
Commerce Services
Contextual Runtime Clustering Monitoring .. ..
Equinox
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9. Commerce Service
Inventory
Customers
Orders
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10. The Fan Shop
Live Demo
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11. Things For Broader Re-Use
Contextual Runtime
Http Application Model
Admin Toolkit
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12. Things For Broader Re-Use
Contextual Runtime
Http Application Model
Admin Toolkit Q&A
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13. Contact & Resources
Newsgroup (community)
news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.cloudfree
for comments, questions, and for request that the review call be held
Watch website
http://cloudfree.net/
for blogs, articles and screen casts
Wiki
http://wiki.eclipse.org/CloudFree
for documentation and planning
Business Inquiries
Patrick Israel, p.israel@ageto.de, AGETO Service GmbH
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