This paper introduces a reference architecture for component-based e-commerce system. Then, the authors propose a component
dependency graph (CDG) for modeling the architecture of e-commerce system, which can be used to analyze the properties of
an e-commerce application system in order to improve the design of e-commerce system. Finally, the paper discusses the future
works.
The work reported in this paper is partly supported by the NNSF of China, EYTP of MOE and Lab for Computer Science, Institute
of Software, CAS.