Store programmer
WebSphere Commerce is a Java and J2EE compliant application. To successfully customize WebSphere Commerce you should have knowledge and skills in the following: programming SQL, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML. You should also be familiar with developing and deploying Java servlets and JavaServer Pages in dynamic Web applications. In addition, you should have a basic understanding of Rational Application Developer.
Recommended reading
Before beginning to customize WebSphere Commerce you should read the following topics. The goal of these reading topics is to:
Understand the business models that WebSphere Commerce
supports.
- Understand the WebSphere Commerce architecture and development tools including the information model, data model, and programming model.
- Understand the business processes that WebSphere Commerce supports. The business process model shows where you can extend processes and provides implementation details for all tasks within the business process.
- Understand common WebSphere Commerce programming techniques and learn useful scenarios for extending the base WebSphere Commerce functionality.
All store programmers should review the following topics:
- WebSphere Commerce common architecture: Introduces how the WebSphere Commerce development environment interacts with the Web server, Database server and WAS.
- WebSphere Commerce runtime architecture: Describes the major components of WebSphere Commerce and how they interact.
- Model-View-Controller design pattern: Describes how the data model, presentation information, and control information are separated into different objects.
- WebSphere Commerce development environment: Introduces the main features of the development environment.
If you will develop Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), read the following topics:
If you will develop WebSphere Commerce commands, read the following topics:
Tutorials
WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks related to creating customized code for WebSphere Commerce applications. The development-related steps are to be performed in either a WebSphere Commerce Developer Enterprise, a WebSphere Commerce Developer - Express , or a WebSphere Commerce Developer Professional . The deployment steps are to be performed on WebSphere Commerce (either Business, Express, or Professional, corresponding to your development environment) running on Windows 2000.
See Tutorials for a list of programming tutorials.
Samples
- WebSphere Commerce JSP viewer
- Using WebSphere Commerce as a Web service
- Sample access control policies for development purposes
For more samples, see the Samples Gallery.
Calculation framework example
WebSphere Commerce provides a flexible, generic framework that can be used to implement different kinds of calculations and apply them to the applicable business objects. The framework can handle a wide variety of business and legal requirements without programming. WebSphere Commerce provides a number of overridable method implementations from which you can select to do the calculations. If business or legal requirements require a programming change, many such changes can be limited to programming additional overridable method implementations without having to make any changes to existing programming. This framework is referred to as the calculation framework.
Key customization tasks
Related concepts
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JSP page designer
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Integrator information roadmap
Information roadmap: WebSphere Commerce services
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Application developer information roadmap
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Related reference
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