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.
A sample store is for learning purposes and some tutorials can use a sample store. Do not use a sample store as the base for building your site. Sample stores might not be accessible or translated.
This topic provides step-by-step instructions to publish and configure the advanced B2B direct starter store. The advanced B2B direct starter store supports direct selling to other businesses. This store highlights the tasks that a buyer can perform at a seller's e-commerce site. Some of the features included in this starter store are:
Creating a custom implementation of a WebSphere Commerce store requires a significant amount of planning. From gathering client needs, to deploying the live solution, much work is needed to successfully deploy a custom client store. Use the resources in here to help you plan every phase of store creation.
Review this section for information about installing the WebSphere Commerce product, associated maintenance, and WebSphere Commerce enhancements.
Before you migrate WebSphere Commerce, review this information for an overview of the migration process.
WebSphere Commerce provides many tutorials.
A fully functional sample online store, provided in store archive format with WebSphere Commerce. Starter stores are samples designed to be used as a base from which a customized online store can be created. Starter stores are translated into several languages and support multiple Web browsers and platforms. Starter stores are fully accessible, with the exception of the Madisons mobile starter store. Accessibility guidelines for mobile devices are not well defined or well established.
The consumer direct sample store illustrates the tasks that a consumer can perform at a retailer's e-commerce site in the framework of the consumer direct business model.
Use the Publish wizard to create stores and store-related components.
When you publish a store, it includes the same default text and logo that all other advanced B2B direct starter stores receive at creation. As a result, you might want to customize your store to make it reflect your business and your business practices.
When you publish the advanced B2B direct starter store, many optional features are enabled. If you do not want them in your store, you can disable those features, and enable others instead, through the Change Flow notebook.
If you assign a message type to a particular transport, the transport must first be set active. By default, only the e-mail transport is active at the site-level. If the store does not have a message transport assignment, then the site assignment is used.
Use the Organization Administration Console to create an organization or organizational unit for the site.
Use the Campaigns to create marketing campaigns.
Use the Campaign Activity page to create activities.
An e-Marketing spot is the reserved area on a store Web page that is dedicated to displaying personalized marketing content from campaign activities.
A demand chain is composed of the enterprises that sell a business's goods or services. For example, a demand chain may be composed of buyers who initiate the sales transaction, the resellers who sell the manufacturer's goods, and the manufacturer who creates the goods. Or a demand chain may be composed of the resellers who sell a manufacturer's goods, the manufacturer who makes the goods, and the distributors who supply the manufacturer's goods to the resellers. Demand chains also support direct sales channels, in which the demand chain owner sells directly to consumers or business partners.
Commerce Supplier Hub is the new sample store of a Supply chain site provided with WebSphere Commerce. The main site includes the Commerce Supplier Hub, an aggregate or master catalog, and the assets required to publish supplier stores. The Hub is a place where suppliers, and buyers come together. Use this sample to get started on setting up a site where you will be able to host sellers with an aggregate catalog, or to create a sort of a marketplace, where buyers and sellers can come together in one environment.
A JSP code snippet is a code sample that shows you how to add WebSphere Commerce functionality to your store. JSP code snippets may be added to a starter store, or to a store previously published and migrated. JSP code snippets are intended to help you: Quickly add a feature to your store, or add a feature that is not included in one of the starter stores. JSP code snippets use the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL). Each JSP code snippet is well commented, easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to customize.
WebSphere Commerce object snippets are reusable pieces of JSP code that represent display properties of business objects, such as an address, a price, or a catalog entry.
The IBM Sales Center samples give you access to a wide range of files that can help you get started in developing your own Sales Center solution.
The following access control policy samples show you how some basic access control policies can be used in the development environment, so that you can quickly test new resources. They are not designed to be used as-is on a WebSphere Commerce production environment, as they do not provide adequate resource protection.
The WebSphere Commerce portlets, when working together using cooperative portlets, can provide customers with a similar shopping experience to that of the WebSphere Commerce consumer direct storefront, while providing merchants with additional online business sales channels to other portal environments.
The Catalog programming model provides a consistent service-oriented architecture (SOA) based programming model for WebSphere Commerce storefronts. It uses the WebSphere Commerce search framework and the CatalogNavigationView search noun to move storefront catalog services from Java beans and service-oriented integration (SOI) to SOA.
The topics in the Developing section describe tasks performed by an application developer.
The following section describes how you can leverage WebSphere Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
These topics describe the security features of WebSphere Commerce and how to configure these features.
The electronic sample catalog is organized as follows:
