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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 Guided Sell metaphor
The steps in this section explain how to prepare Guided Sell metaphor.
Editing the question and answer tree
This section contains links to sections dealing with editing the question and answer tree.
Creating a link for an answer
You can add links to an answer, rather than providing another question.

Deprecated feature

Creating a link for an answer

You can add links to an answer, rather than providing another question.

About this task

You can link any answer in a tree to one of the following:

Another Guided Sell metaphor.
A Product Exploration or Product Comparison metaphor.
An HTML page, such as a product page.

You can also define a default link as any of the preceding options. By default, the default link is set to the Product Comparison metaphor.

Note: If the answer is set to link to a metaphor that has not been created, then the answer does not display as a link. Instead, it displays as plain black text, as opposed to underlined blue text. If the target metaphor is subsequently created, the link will display correctly only after the Guided Sell metaphor containing the link has been recreated.