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The TPC-W Subcommittee focused primarily on Version 2 development
issues. There were four company presentations dealing with
the functionality of their eCommerce application tier. IBM
Websphere, BEA Weblogic, Microsoft Commerce Server, and Oracle
iStore were all discussed and reviewed. The subcommittee identified
several common features from these presentations: session
management, personalization, failover, and B2B processing
capabilities. The subcommittee is reviewing these features
in more detail to see how they could be included in TPC-W
Version 2. The subcommittee plans to begin the review phase
for these V2 proposals in June, and begin the integration
of the proposed requirements into the draft specification
in August.
Additionally, the subcommittee addressed some ambiguous areas
of the Version 1 specification. These included a clarification
to the caching consistency requirements as well as a new requirement
to disclose details of the random number generators used during
the benchmark measurements. These requirements will be included
in the next revision of the specification to be released at
a later date.
The TPC-W Subcommittee is gathering feedback from the industry
regarding current and emerging eBusiness technologies, features,
and components. This feedback provides valuable guidance about
what is appropriate for inclusion in an industry standard
eBusiness benchmark. The Subcommittee intends to use the feedback
to develop or enhance TPC eBusiness benchmarks with a common
set of vendor neutral features. Please take the opportunity
to give us your feedback by filling out the TPC-W questionnaire.
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