Larry,
This can be done. In fact, IBM used to sell a product called Net.Commerce (this is now called WebSphere Commerce Suite and is written in Java) that did this very thing. The way they did it was to handle all of the programming logic in native code and use Net.Data just for the display. IBM gave us a demo of this (that was around 1998) and the code was very, very ugly.
Depending upon what you're doing, shopping carts can be pretty complicated and it's been my experience that Net.Data doesn't do complicated very well.
We (as in mostly me) ended up writing CGI programs to do all of this that wrapped our order entry logic (the validation part is where it gets tricky, the act of taking a product id and putting it in a table is easy). If I were doing this today and didn't want to use Java, I probably would use one of the tool kits (like CGIDEV2).
Another option would be to use PHP. There are plenty of examples in PHP to get you started. Most of the ones I've seen lacked the sophistication you'd expect of a production app but they would be a place to start.
Matt
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Kleinman
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:58 PM
To: WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] shopping cart in net.data
Has anyone done a shopping cart in Net.data? I've done a lot of work with
net.data, but never a cart. I'm about to start one, but if someone knows
any samples, freeware, etc out there, I'd rather not start from scratch.
Thanks
Larry Kleinman
Kleinman Associates, Inc.
212-949-6469
203-255-4100
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