Management Center framework
The Management Center framework is the foundation for the catalogs, promotions, marketing, and asset business user tooling. The business objects are defined by the individual components that make up the Management Center. The framework uses those definitions to provide all of the features that you can use to find, create, modify, and delete the defined business objects. If you plan to customize the Management Center, it is important to understand the framework and the components that make up the Management Center.
The Management Center is a rich graphical Web-based tool that business users interact with to manage their business. The Management Center is developed using OpenLaszlo open source technology, which involves writing declarative XML files with embedded JavaScript.
For more information about OpenLaszlo, visit http://openlaszlo.org.
This diagram illustrates a high-level overview of the Management Center framework:
The OpenLaszlo source XML is complied into and presented as a Flash application, which is downloaded to the client (business user's) browser, and displayed by a Flash player within a Web browser. The application makes name-value pair HTTP requests to the Management Center Web application, which communicates through Web services within the WebSphere Commerce Server.
On the server side, the WebSphere Commerce Server receives data from the client and processes actions on the business objects. The Management Center Web application communicates with the WebSphere Commerce Server through SOA/SOI component services.
In between the Management Center client and the WebSphere Commerce Server is the Management Center Web application. It mediates the name-value pair HTTP requests into OAGIS service requests.
Related concepts
Management Center user interface
Management Center user interface views
Related tasks
Customize the Management Center shell
Customize an existing Management Center tool
Create a new tool for the Management Center