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WebSphere Commerce development environment

WebSphere Commerce Developer is the development toolkit for customizing a WebSphere Commerce application.

You should use the edition of WebSphere Commerce Developer that matches your edition of WebSphere Commerce:

All of the WebSphere Commerce Developer editions include the tools that you need to create customized code and perform Web development tasks. In general, this documentation set refers to these products collectively as the WebSphere Commerce development environment.

The WebSphere Commerce development environment builds on top of Rational Application Developer, which is the core development environment from IBM. It helps you optimize and simplify Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition and Web services development by offering best practices, templates, code generation, and the most comprehensive development environment in its class. This integrated development environment (IDE) includes integrated support for Java components, enterprise beans, servlets, JSP files, HTML, XML, and Web services all in one development environment.

Note: WebSphere Commerce Developer is configured by default to use the DummyServerKeyFile.jks and DummyServerTrustFile.jks files with the default self-signed certificate. That is, an SSL certificate that is not signed by a trusted certificate authority, but signed by the issuer of the certificate. To have a secure test environment, we must generate our own certificate to replace the dummy certificates. For more information about the dummy key and trust file certificates and how to replace them, see WebSphere Application Server Security Guide topic. For information about encoding passwords in files, see Encoding password in files There are four main components to the WebSphere Commerce development environment:

  1. The WebSphere Commerce workspace used within Rational Application Developer

  2. The development database

  3. WebSphere Commerce tools and plug-ins for Rational Application Developer

  4. File system assets, such as WebSphere Commerce XML configuration and properties files

The following diagram depicts a WebSphere Commerce Developer environment.


Related concepts
WebSphere Commerce common architecture
WebSphere Commerce workspace
WebSphere Commerce Developer tools, plug-ins, and utilities


Related tasks
Accessing the development database directly
Working with enterprise beans
Adding new EJB projects
Starting and stopping WebSphere Commerce Developer


Related reference
Start WebSphere Commerce Developer utility