The catch (for me) is, he wants to make some of his work available for online purchase. Merchant accounts, gateways, etc., is all new territory for me. I gather that there are two basic approaches for enabling commerce. The first is to use a complete third-party solution. Users are redirected to a third-party "store" site when it's time to buy. I want to avoid this approach if I can, but it could be OK as a temporary solution to get going I suppose. The second approach is to use your own solution. I break this approach into two sub-approaches. One is to implement from scratch. The other is to use some "boxed" commerce solution (there seem to be a ton of these in the PHP world), that works under the guise of your own site. I think this final approach is the one I like the best. Please correct me if I don't have this straight. I realize that there are two basic parts of a commerce solution. One is the "shopping cart" or site functionality (something I wouldn't mind implementing if necessary), the other is the commerce service (one I would rather not try to implement unless it's a lot easier than I think). In addition, I see that there are enabling services such as merchant accounts, credit card gateways, etc.
I could use your advice. Are there any good "boxed" JSP solutions you know of that I could use to get something going quickly? Do you know of any good (JSP-relevant) tutorials on this matter? I know my friend wants to start by allowing credit card purchases, but he also likes the idea of accepting PayPal and the like.
I would appreciate any ideas.
Erik
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