A New Development Architecture for e-Commerce Platform

E-commerce is a kind of commercial activity which adopts electronic form under the condition of open Internet. It has become an important life style. The diversity and variability of e-commerce activities means a great challenge to software development. How to design and develop a flexible and reusable e-commerce platform has become a direction that e-commerce industry is heading to. Based on the three-tier architecture, new e-commerce platform development framework-seven layer architecture has been given in this paper. It describes the design ideas and the concrete realization of each layer.