Dedicated to

my Father, for educating me as an Engineer This Master Thesis project concerns the design and implementation of a Webshop following the architecture and patterns of enterprise applications. The main idea was to create a scalable, internationalized, secure, fail tolerance and component-based application. The application was developed following the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. This was accomplished by using Struts, a framework designed for developing J2EE web applications. The Model component was developed following the Hibernate technology. It offers an easy to use framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. The Webshop can be accessed not only by human interface via web pages, the application supports interoperable machine-machine interaction over Internet through Web Services