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Migrate IBM Sales Center
IBM Sales Center was built and deployed using WebSphere Everyplace Deployment for Windows and Linux. IBM Sales Center 7 is built and deployed on Lotus Expeditor 6.2, and therefore requires that you migrate any custom IBM Sales Center applications.
The version change also corresponds to an underlying upgrade from Eclipse 3.0.2 to Eclipse 3.4.
This migration introduces some binary incompatibilities, which might affect any custom code you have applied to the IBM Sales Center.
Notes:
- Upgrade the IBM Sales Center client is performed by simply Install IBM Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce on the client machine. Migration is provided as an option during the installation, if an existing version of the IBM Sales Center client is detected.
- To leverage IBM Sales Center support for any new features provided in version 7, upgrade all the clients to version 7.
- Migrate the IBM Sales Center development environment
The customized plug-ins developed on Sales Center v6 is compatible with the new Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce v7. However, you might encounter some compatibility issues when running these plug-ins in Sales Center v7.To resolve most of these issues, you might need to upgrade the customized plug-ins using the Sales Center v7 development environment.
- Incompatibilities between Sales Center v6 and v7
IBM Sales Center migration to v7 introduces some incompatibilities, which might affect any custom code you have applied to the IBM Sales Center. The following entry describes the areas that changed and provides actions required to resolve the issues. You only need to examine this section if you are experiencing problems running the plug-ins on IBM Sales Center v7.