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The information contained in this section applies to WebSphere Commerce Version 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in a newer section.WebSphere Commerce is a single, unified e-commerce platform that offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), directly with businesses (B2B), and indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models). WebSphere Commerce is designed to be a customizable, scalable, and high availability solution that is built to leverage open standards. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels.
Installing
Review the following sections for information about installing the WebSphere Commerce product, associated maintenance, and WebSphere Commerce enhancements.
Installing or enabling other software
The following software programs need extra installation or enablement steps if you want to use them with WebSphere Commerce.
Deploying WebSphere Commerce Search
WebSphere Commerce Search is deployed in the development environment in an embedded configuration by default. You can deploy WebSphere Commerce Search in the standard or advanced configurations, depending on your environment.
Embedded configuration
The WebSphere Commerce Search server is deployed in the embedded configuration in WebSphere Commerce Developer by default.

User Guide
The information contained in this section applies to WebSphere Commerce Version 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in a newer section.WebSphere Commerce is a single, unified e-commerce platform that offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), directly with businesses (B2B), and indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models). WebSphere Commerce is designed to be a customizable, scalable, and high availability solution that is built to leverage open standards. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels.
- Planning
  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.
- Installing
  Review the following sections for information about installing the WebSphere Commerce product, associated maintenance, and WebSphere Commerce enhancements.
  - Downloading WebSphere Commerce media images
    To install WebSphere Commerce, you require the product package. Follow these steps to successfully download the required media.
  - Installing WebSphere Commerce Developer
    This section describes how to install and configure WebSphere Commerce Developer. WebSphere Commerce Developer is a test environment for developers or system administrators to develop stores and WebSphere Commerce application code.
  - Installing WebSphere Commerce
    The following roadmap provides a guide to installing WebSphere Commerce.
  - Installing or enabling other software
    The following software programs need extra installation or enablement steps if you want to use them with WebSphere Commerce.
    - Deploying WebSphere Commerce Search
      WebSphere Commerce Search is deployed in the development environment in an embedded configuration by default. You can deploy WebSphere Commerce Search in the standard or advanced configurations, depending on your environment.
      - Embedded configuration
        The WebSphere Commerce Search server is deployed in the embedded configuration in WebSphere Commerce Developer by default.
      - Standard configuration
        The WebSphere Commerce Search server can be deployed on your WebSphere Commerce or WebSphere Commerce Developer machine in the standard configuration. The standard configuration mode creates and deploys a separate search profile and Web module on the same machine as the WebSphere Commerce profile.
      - Advanced configuration
        The advanced configuration federates and clusters WebSphere Commerce Search. First, in the standard configuration, it creates and deploys a separate search profile and web module on the same machine as the WebSphere Commerce profile. Then, federates them across nodes using the deployment manager (DMGR).
      - Managed configuration
        The WebSphere Commerce Search server can be deployed in the managed configuration. The managed configuration is a variation of the advanced configuration, but contains streamlined configuration tasks.
      - ... in the standard or advanced configuration
        WebSphere Commerce Search is deployed in the development environmentin an embedded configuration by default. It is then deployed in the standard configuration as a local deployment. Optionally, it is then deployed in the advanced configuration for federating and clustering.
      - ... in the managed configuration
        You can deploy and work with the WebSphere Commerce Search server in the managed configuration. The managed configuration is a variation of the advanced configuration, but contains streamlined configuration tasks, where all managed production Solr cluster members are federated and managed by a deployment manager.
    - Setting up IBM Health Center to collect performance data
      IBM Health Center for Java is a low-overhead agent that collects Java configuration and performance data. The data that is collected includes CPU usage, native memory usage, method profiling, garbage collection, locks, threads, and more.
    - Installing a payment plug-in
      To install an custom payment plug-in into the Rational Application Developer workspace, follow these directions. The instructions use the example of a plug-in called SamplePlugin.
    - Uninstalling a payment plug-in
      To remove a payment plug-in from use, you can either remove references to the plug-in, or remove the payment plug-in directory from the plugins directory.
    - WebSphere Commerce RVU Order Line Metrics
      A Resource Value Unit (RVU) is a proof of entitlement based on the number of units of a specific resource that is used or managed. WebSphere Commerce RVU Order Line Metrics, is an order line resource, where you are able to produce a report of the count of any completed order lines for auditing purposes. For your specific RVU entitlement, refer to your license.
  - Installing maintenance
    WebSphere Commerce updates include fixes to code or functionality through fix packs and include additions of new features or enhancements through mod packs.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to WebSphere Commerce Version 8.0, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Deploying
  The topics in this section describe how to publish stores to either a test or production environment, and how to deploy customized code.
- Operating
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using WebSphere Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
- Tutorials
  WebSphere Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your WebSphere Commerce instance and stores.
- Samples
- Developing
  The topics in the Developing section describe tasks performed by an application developer.
- Compliance
  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.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of WebSphere Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
- Troubleshooting

WebSphere Commerce Developer

WebSphere Commerce Search server: Embedded configuration

The WebSphere Commerce Search server is deployed in the embedded configuration in WebSphere Commerce Developer by default.

The following diagram illustrates deploying WebSphere Commerce Search in the embedded configuration, where the WebSphere Commerce Server and WebSphere Commerce Search are running in a Java virtual machine (JVM):
Embedded configuration deployment diagram

Embedded configuration deployment diagram

Important: It is recommended that you include only one language when you create the search index in the embedded configuration. That is, heap memory issues can occur due to the large number of search cores that are created in the development environmentwhen all supported languages are built in an embedded configuration.

The following list summarizes the WebSphere Commerce Search deployment in the embedded configuration:

It contains a single WebSphere Application Server profile, with the following applications:
- WC
- Search
It uses a common JDBC data source and JVM heap space.
It uses a common database. Derby, DB2, or Oracle.
WebSphere Application Server security is disabled.
No SSL certificate is required.