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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.
Customizing marketing
Working with Product Advisor
Creating a metaphor XML input file
Create an XML input file to specify which store's metaphors you want to build, update, or delete with the create metaphor scheduler command.
Preparing a Product metaphor
The steps in this section explain how to prepare a Product Comparison metaphor or a Product Exploration metaphor for a category.
Changing the columnName setting
The steps in this section explain how to change the column that the search uses as an index.

Deprecated feature

Changing the columnName setting

The steps in this section explain how to change the column that the search uses as an index.

Procedure

Edit the XML input file
Find the <columnName> element corresponding to the constraint that you want to change. The columnName element will be inside a <feature> element.
Set the columnName value so that it matches the database column name in the Product Advisor search space for which you want to search.
Save the XML file.
Update the production server by importing the updated XML file.