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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.
Developing
The topics in the Developing section describe tasks performed by an application developer.
Presentation layer
WebSphere Commerce uses Java Server Pages (JSP) to implement the view layer of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. The view layer is in charge of retrieving data from the database through the use of data beans and formatting it to meet the display requirements. The view layers determines whether the request is sent to a browser or streamed out as XML. JSP files present a clean separation between data content and presentation.
Management Center framework
The Management Center framework is the foundation for 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.
Customizing the Management Center user interface
Customize the Management Center user interface by adding, changing, or removing elements within the user interface.
Customizing an existing Management Center tool
You can customize the Management Center Catalogs, Marketing, Promotions, Store Management, Catalog Filter and Pricing, and Assets tools to meet your business needs.
Customizing the Management Center spell checker
The Management Center spell checker checks the spelling of text in a text editor or rich text editor that is embedded into a Management Center properties view or editable list view. The spell checker opens the Spell Check dialog to display each misspelled word within the text that a business user is editing. The business user can use the dialog to replace each misspelled work with one of the suggested words or skip the misspelled text. You can customize the spell checker to add new words to the dictionary so that these words are no longer flagged as misspelled words. You cannot add new dictionaries.
Adding words to dictionaries
Add new words or phrases to the Management Center spell checker dictionary so that they are no longer flagged as misspelled words. For example, you can add words that are specific to your company, such as product names, to the dictionary so that the spell checker recognizes these words and does not flag them as misspelled words.

Introduced in Feature Pack 1

Adding words to dictionaries

Add new words or phrases to the Management Center spell checker dictionary so that they are no longer flagged as misspelled words. For example, you can add words that are specific to your company, such as product names, to the dictionary so that the spell checker recognizes these words and does not flag them as misspelled words.

The Management Center spell checker dictionary is case-sensitive. For example, if you add sampleword2 to the dictionary, you must also add the following variants to the dictionary so that they are not flagged as misspelled words:

SAMPLEWORD2
Sampleword2
sampleWord2

The dictionary also detects accents. For example, if frençhsamplé is added to the French spell checker dictionary, any variants of this word that do not contain accents, such as frenchsample, are flagged as misspelled words with a suggested replacement of frençhsamplé.

Procedure

Open WebSphere Commerce Developer and switch to the Enterprise Explorer view.
In the Enterprise Explorer view, expand LOBTools > WebContent > WEB-INF > dictionaries.
Open the addenda.xml file.
Within the addenda.xml file, add the new words or phrases that you want the spell checker to recognize.
The following example shows how to add the new word sampleword1 to both the English and French spell checker dictionaries and how to add the new word sampleword2 to only the English spell checker dictionary.
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<dictionary>
<word locale="en-US,fr-FR">sampleword1</word> 
<word locale="en-US">sampleword2</word> 
</dictionary>
```
The addenda.xml file lists the available locales in a comment line. Ensure that the locale you are adding new words for is also enabled in the Management Center. If the locale is not enabled, you can add the new locale for the Management Center.
Note: Spell check does not support the following languages:
- Japanese
- Korean
- Romanian
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
Restart the WebSphere Application Server administration server for your changes to take effect.

What to do next

Test your changes by viewing them in the Management Center, using this URL: https://hostname:8000/lobtools.
Deploy your changes to your production environment.