Home
User Guide
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
Setting a path for a search space XML
The steps in this section refer to setting a path for the search space XML file.

Deprecated feature

Setting a path for a search space XML

The steps in this section refer to setting a path for the search space XML file.

About this task

To set the path for the search space XML file that is generated when a search space is created:

Open the ProductAdvisorKeys.properties file from WC_eardir\properties\com\ibm\commerce\tools\productadvisor\properties in an editor.
Change the value of ssXMLFilePath to the path where you want to save the generated XML, for example ssXMLFilePath =E:/WebSphere/wcs/samples/pa/xml

Important:

Ensure that the XML file path that you are specifying already exists and is the fully qualified path. If the specified XML path does not exist or the parameter is left blank, then the generated XML is saved in WC_installdir\xml\tools\pa.
If a non root user runs the WebSphere Commerce instance but does not have the relevant write permissions for the folder where the output XML file is created, then the command fails.
If the instance user profile does not have the permissions to create the file in the specified folder, the command will fail.