Overview: Integrating WebSphere Commerce and IBM Workplace Web Content Management

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This topic outlines the software and steps required to integrate WebSphere Commerce and IBM Workplace Web Content Management (IWWCM)

Integrating WebSphere Commerce and WCM requires the following software:

• WebSphere Commerce Professional or WebSphere Commerce Enterprise, version 6.0

• WebSphere Portal 6.0.0.1 and the required prerequisites.

  IBM Workplace WCM must be enabled.

• The following IBM Workplace WCM iFixes are required, and must be applied in the following order:
  1. PK35083
  2. PK35483
  3. PK35485
  4. PK35491
  5. PK35495
  6. PK35618
  7. PK36427
  8. PK36407
  9. PK36445

Before you can integrate WebSphere Commerce and WCM, complete the following tasks:

1. Configure WCM, and install and configure any of it's required prerequisites.

2. Install the Authoring Portlet used for Web Content Authoring.

3. Ensure that you have met the required prerequisites.

4. Install and configure your WebSphere Commerce production server.

5. Install and configure WebSphere Commerce with an authoring server instance.

   IWWCM integration for WebSphere Commerce requires workspaces. Also, ensure that you enable e-mail notification for workspaces.

   In addition, your authoring server instance should be configured to propagate data and files to your production server.

6. Ensure that your WCM and WebSphere Commerce systems can connect to each other over a network.

Once you have all the required software and met the prerequisites, you can integrate WebSphere Commerce and IWWCM.

To integrate WebSphere Commerce and IWWCM:

1. Install IWWCM integration for WebSphere Commerce on the WCM system.

2. Install IWWCM integration for WebSphere Commerce on the WebSphere Commerce system.

3. Prepare IWWCM to create WebSphere Commerce content.

4. Modify WebSphere Commerce JSP files to display WCM content.

Related concepts

IWWCM WebSphere Commerce
Workspaces
Authoring server

Related tasks

Create an authoring server
Enabling Workspaces in the WebSphere Commerce development environment
Enabling e-mail notification for workspaces