12
Commerce Accelerator Customization
Posted by | Posted in WebSphere Commerce | Posted on 12-12-2008
Tagged Under : Tools Framework, WCS, WebSphere, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Commerce Server
Commerce Accelerator Customization
I was customizing WebSphere Commerce Accelerator for that last couple of weeks. We are adding a new feature for configuring a product dynamically. WCS does not provide any product configurator OTB and hence no screen was available in Commerce Accelerator to manage the Product Configuration. Our business wants to manage the Product Configuration from commerce accelerator. So the only option available to us was to customize Commerce Accelerator. Customizing WebSphere Commerce Accelerator is a very difficult task. Commerce Accelerator uses a framework called Tools Framework which manages all the state using JavaScript. If someone wants to learn Object oriented JavaScript the best thing to do is to customize some of the Tools Framework components. The biggest issue with Commerce Accelerator customization is JavaScript debugging. CA works only in IE and there are no good debuggers available for JavaScript debugging in IE.
Every time I customize Tools Framework I will think to document how to do this customization. However unfortunately it never happens. So next time when I started customization I need to do the same research again and again. So this time I kept some notes on how to create Wizard, Notebook, Dialog, Tree etc.
I am thinking of some posts that contain these notes on customizing and debugging of commerce accelerator whenever I get some time.
Hi Albin,
I saw your posts for WCS, really helpful.
Just want to check if u managed to dcouments some tips for accelerator customization. Please share.
Regards
Nidhish
Sorry I never got a chance to post the tips yet.
Please post the customization of the tools framework. Your blog posts are very good and it’s easy to learn from somebody who has done the stuff than going through all the stuff in the Infocenter.
Please post the customization of the elements of the tools framework
I dont’ know. Some how I am not getting into this. I am not sure when I will be able to make some posts on this subject. I will try to find some time now