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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. 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. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Tutorials
HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
Docker start-up logic
HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to the customizing Docker start-up logic. The following tutorials provide sample guides to defining the custom logic.
Customizing the Docker start-up logic
This tutorial demonstrates how to customize the Docker start-up logic for HCL Commerce V9. HCL Commerce V9 embraces the Docker technology and shift to the dockerized delivery model. Besides, you can leverage HCL Commerce Build tool to build your customization into a package, and then build your custom Docker image to include your code change before deployment.

Documentation
HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. 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. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
- Getting started
  HCL Commerce has different advantages for business users, administrators and developers. HCL Commerce targets each of these roles with a tailored set of offerings so that each of your users can get maximum benefit.
- Installing and deploying
  Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Operating
  Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
  Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
- Customizing
  The topics in the Customizing section describe tasks performed by an application developer to customize HCL Commerce.
- Tutorials
  HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
  - Docker start-up logic
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to the customizing Docker start-up logic. The following tutorials provide sample guides to defining the custom logic.
    - Customizing the Docker start-up logic
      This tutorial demonstrates how to customize the Docker start-up logic for HCL Commerce V9. HCL Commerce V9 embraces the Docker technology and shift to the dockerized delivery model. Besides, you can leverage HCL Commerce Build tool to build your customization into a package, and then build your custom Docker image to include your code change before deployment.
      - ...with Dockerfile
        In this lesson, you define all customized Docker start-up logic in Dockerfile.
      - ...with extension points
        In this lesson, you define customized Docker start-up logic with the extension point shell script.
      - …with run engine commands and extension points
        In this lesson, you define customized Docker start-up logic with run engine commands and extension points.
  - Programming model
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to creating customized code to develop and enhance HCL Commerce applications. The following tutorials provide sample guides to customizing elements of the HCL Commerce programming model.
  - Web services
    Web services tutorials introduce the various tasks that are related to creating and customizing web services for HCL Commerce applications.
  - Management Center
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing Management Center.
  - Migration
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to migration from previous versions of WebSphere Commerce. The following tutorials provide sample guides to migrating your WebSphere Commerce sites to HCL Commerce Version 9.
  - Search
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to describe how to customize HCL Commerce Search.
  - Starter stores
    HCL Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing the storefront.
- Samples
  Topics in the Samples category highlight the various samples that are provided with HCL Commerce.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage HCL Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of HCL Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
  Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of HCL Commerce site performance.
- Troubleshooting
  Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with HCL Commerce, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
- Reference
  Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.

Tutorial: Customizing the Docker start-up logic

This tutorial demonstrates how to customize the Docker start-up logic for HCL Commerce V9. HCL Commerce V9 embraces the Docker technology and shift to the dockerized delivery model. Besides, you can leverage HCL Commerce Build tool to build your customization into a package, and then build your custom Docker image to include your code change before deployment.

Note: Do not copy the customization package to the dockerized application server and modify the configuration files, or to tune the application directly on the application server in a dockerized orchestration environment. Based on your business requirements, you need to prepare your own customized image on top of the default HCL Commerce Docker image before you deploy the HCL Commerce environment.

Learning objectives

After completing this tutorial, you should be familiar with the following tasks:

Defining customized logic in Dockerfile
Defining the customized logic with the extension point script
Defining customized logic with run engine commands and extension points

Time required

Expect this tutorial to take 60 minutes to complete. The tutorial takes longer if you explore concepts that are related to this tutorial.

Skill level

Advanced

Audience

This tutorial is intended for HCL Commerce administrators and developers who are responsible for building and deploying custom HCL Commerce Docker images.

Prerequisites

Read Building a custom Docker image from a deployable package.
Familiarize yourself with the Docker container start up logic for HCL Commerce Version 9.0.0.2 or later topic.
Read the Creating your own Run Engine commands topic.