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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 IBM Sales Center
In the IBM Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce there is a set of user interface panels, views and dialogs that contain the most commonly used features. You can add to or configure the user interface to suit your needs, as well as changing the content and format of the data that is passed between the client and the server.
Customizing Sales Center support for large shopping carts
Enabling and disabling the doPrice parameter for quote commands
To enable and disable the doPrice parameter for the IBM Sales Center, to invoke related quote commands such as QuoteItemAdd and QuoteItemUpdate. To enable the doPrice parameter for quote commands in the IBM Sales Center:

Enabling and disabling the doPrice parameter for quote commands

To enable and disable the doPrice parameter for the IBM Sales Center, to invoke related quote commands such as QuoteItemAdd and QuoteItemUpdate. To enable the doPrice parameter for quote commands in the IBM Sales Center:

Procedure

Open the SyncQuoteBODMapping.xml file found in the WC_eardir\xml\messaging\ directory.

To enable the doPrice parameter:

Add a Constant element into the body of the QuoteItemAddCmd command element as follows:


<Command
CommandName="com.ibm.commerce.quote.commands.QuoteItemAddCmd">
   <Constant Field="doPrice">Y</Constant>
</Command>

Make the same update to the Command element of the QuoteItemUpdateCmd:


<Command
CommandName="com.ibm.commerce.quote.commands.QuoteItemUpdateCmd"
>
   <Constant Field="doPrice">Y</Constant>
</Command>

To disable the doPrice parameter:

Update the <Constant Field="doPrice"> element in the QuoteItemAddCmd element by entering an "N" into the body of the element:


<Command
CommandName="com.ibm.commerce.quote.commands.QuoteItemAddCmd">
   <Constant Field="doPrice">N</Constant>
</Command>

Make the same update to the Command element of the QuoteItemUpdateCmd:


<Command
CommandName="com.ibm.commerce.quote.commands.QuoteItemUpdateCmd"
>
   <Constant Field="doPrice">N</Constant>
</Command>

Restart the WebSphere Commerce instance.