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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.
Tutorials
WebSphere Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your WebSphere Commerce instance and stores.
Management Center
WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing Management Center.
Adding languages to WebSphere Commerce
In this tutorial, you are adding support for more languages to WebSphere Commerce.
Summary: Adding languages to WebSphere Commerce
In this tutorial, you created a pair of locales and added support for the locales to your WebSphere Commerce instance and starter store.

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.
- 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.
  - Programming model
    WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to creating customized code to develop and enhance WebSphere Commerce applications. The following tutorials provide sample guides to customizing elements of the WebSphere Commerce programming model.
  - Web services
    Web services tutorials introduce the various tasks that are related to creating and customizing web services for WebSphere Commerce applications.
  - Management Center
    WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing Management Center.
    - Adding a tool to the Management Center
      In this tutorial, you are adding a tool to the Management Center. You are adding the Recipes tool. You learn to use the Management Center programming framework to create a presentation layer with definition XML files and JavaServer Pages (JSP) files.
    - Adding fields in the Catalogs tool
      In this tutorial, you extend the Management Center Catalogs tool to display UserData information, whcih business users can manage and edit in the tool.
    - Creating a promotion type
      You can customize the Management Center Promotions tool to add support for a new promotion type. For instance, if the default promotion types do not meet your business needs. In this tutorial, you create a promotion type by customizing an existing promotion type. The new promotion type is then available in the Promotions tool for your business users to use to create promotions.
    - Defining write usage in Management Center
      In this tutorial, you define a usage policy to determine whether a user has write access to instances of a business object. You create a Search Term Manager role that has write access to the search term association objects in the Catalogs tool.
    - Adding languages to WebSphere Commerce
      In this tutorial, you are adding support for more languages to WebSphere Commerce.
      - Configuring bootstrap files
        In this lesson, you are configuring the bootstrap files that are required to support the new languages to your WebSphere Commerce instance. You must update the main bootstrap file and create the multi-language bootstrap files and load the files to add the language support.
      - Including language data
        In this lesson, you learn how to include the language data you created in the previous step into your WebSphere Commerce instance. In this step of the tutorial, you include the locale information by updating the instance configuration files.
      - Creating files for the new locale in Management Center
        In this lesson, you add the properties and resource bundle files for the new locale. WebSphere Commerce defines static text such as prompt text and messages in property files.
      - Testing the customization
        In this step of the tutorial, you verify that the customization is successful.
      - Grouping locales by country and store
        In this optional lesson, you group your new locales by country and separate them by store. Grouping locales by country and store ensure that a store in a particular country has only the languages that it requires.
      - Summary: Adding languages to WebSphere Commerce
        In this tutorial, you created a pair of locales and added support for the locales to your WebSphere Commerce instance and starter store.
  - WebSphere Commerce search
    WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to describe how to customize WebSphere Commerce search.
  - Starter stores
    WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing the storefront.
- 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

Summary: Adding languages to WebSphere Commerce

In this tutorial, you created a pair of locales and added support for the locales to your WebSphere Commerce instance and starter store.

Lessons Learned

By completing this tutorial, you learned how to do the following tasks:

Update the main bootstrap file and create language-specific bootstrap files to enable WebSphere Commerce to recognize the new languages.
Update configuration XML files and store profiles to include language data for the new languages in your WebSphere Commerce instance.
Creating, setting up, preprocessing, and indexing language data with WebSphere Commerce search.
Create property files for new locales.
Add support for different languages in a single starter store by publishing a second store instance and setting each instance of the store to support different languages.
Use the HTTP Server to create separate URLs for your store instances that link to the appropriate locale.