Tutorial: Rapid store development and deployment

 

Introduction

This tutorial will show you how to execute a rapid store development process. Rapid store development is a proven systematic procedure provided by IBM Software Services. Many successful projects have followed this concept, which encompass a wide portfolio of broad skills and integrations that lie well beyond the scope of this tutorial. However, the concept of reusing the WebSphere Commerce starter stores remains the same as a guide for accommodating a wide array of business requirements.

After completing this tutorial, you should be able to do the following tasks:

• Edit the env.bat file to match your configuration
• Use the WebSphere Commerce utilities to reuse starter store assets

 

Audience

This tutorial is aimed at those people who would be developing stores using WebSphere Commerce and who would like to improve efficiency by reusing the assets of existing starter stores.

Time required

Expect this tutorial to take 2 hours to complete.

Prerequisites

To complete this tutorial you should be familiar with the following terms and concepts:

• massextract utility
• txttransfrom utility
• xmltransfrom utility
• idresgen utility
• massload utility
• Publishing a store archive

Before you begin the tutorial, ensure you have completed the following prerequisites:

1. Install WebSphere Commerce development environment
2. Publish the Consumer Direct starter store
3. Extract the included ZIP file to a temporary directory

 

Tutorial tasks

This tutorial is divided into the following steps:

1. Background
2. Update the env batch file
3. Execute WebSphere Commerce utilities

 

Resources

Download the ZIP file containing all the code relating to this tutorial.

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