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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
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Deploying
The topics in this section describe how to publish stores to either a test or production environment, and how to deploy customized code.
WebSphere Commerce Build and Deployment tool
The WebSphere Commerce Build and Deployment tool is designed to address the error-prone and time-consuming nature of customized asset deployment. Manual customized asset deployment involves accessing and updating numerous systems, including your database, web server, application server, and WebSphere Commerce server. Manual customization can be problematic, especially for a production environment where downtime has a negative impact on the business. For a customization project with many developers, it is a challenge to ensure that each development environment setup is quick, easy, and repeatable to preserve productivity. The WebSphere Commerce Build and Deployment tool provides a starting point for you to automate your build and deployment processes in a standardized, controlled manner.
Configuring and running the build process
The WebSphere Commerce Build and Deployment tool is highly configurable, in order to suit your current server environment, repository structure, and target environments.
Build configuration references
Configuring the build process mainly involves setting properties in configuration properties files. Refer to the topics below for detailed description and usage of these properties.
Security-sensitive build configuration properties
These properties provide security-sensitive settings, such as user names and passwords, to the build process. For security, the values of these properties are encoded at the beginning of the build process. They can also be encoded by the stand-alone properties file encoding utility manually. The original template file for these properties is WCBD_installdir/wcbd-build.private.properties.template.

Security-sensitive build configuration properties

These properties provide security-sensitive settings, such as user names and passwords, to the build process. For security, the values of these properties are encoded at the beginning of the build process. They can also be encoded by the stand-alone properties file encoding utility manually. The original template file for these properties is WCBD_installdir/wcbd-build.private.properties.template.

Property summary

Property summary
Property	Summary
mail.user	The user name that is used to connect to the SMTP server.
mail.password	The password that is used to connect to the SMTP server.

Property detail

mail.user: The user name that is used to connect to the SMTP server. Leave the value of this property empty if the SMTP server does not use SMTP authentication.
mail.password: The password that is used to connect to the SMTP server. Leave the value of this property empty if the SMTP server does not use SMTP authentication.