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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.
Creating a new tool for the Management Center
The Management Center offers the Catalogs, Marketing, Promotions, Installments, Store Management, Catalog Filter and Pricing, Assets, and Tasks tools, ready to use. As part of your Management Center customization, you can create a new custom tool.
Defining the OpenLaszlo classes instantiated in a tool definition class
An instance of the wcfBusinessObjectEditor class contains child elements that define the characteristics of the tool definition. These child elements are class instances that define the services and objects used by the tool. Before you instantiate these classes you must define them.
Defining views for a Management Center object
The Management Center provides the explorer view which displays items in the form of a tree. The explorer view is displayed in the left area of the Management Center and controls what is shown in the main work area. The main work area supports three types of views that display business objects: properties views, list views, and calendar views.
Defining a calendar view
A calendar view shows details about an object from a scheduling perspective, using horizontal bar graphs (for example, a scheduling view showing the duration of a promotion). Calendar views are available in the Promotions and Marketing tools.

Defining a calendar view

A calendar view shows details about an object from a scheduling perspective, using horizontal bar graphs (for example, a scheduling view showing the duration of a promotion). Calendar views are available in the Promotions and Marketing tools.

Before you begin

A calendar view is a specific type of list view. Calendar views are classes or definitions that extend lzx/commerce/foundation/restricted/GanttGrid.lzx/wcfGanttGrid.

About this task

The steps for defining a calendar view are the same as those for a list view with the exception that you use wcfGanttGrid instead of lzx/commerce/foundation/restricted/Grid.lzx/wcfObjectGrid. See Defining a list view.