WebSphere Commerce Developer Enterprise 6.0 installation – Part 1 covers the installation of RAD and WAS Fix packs. Once we have done with all that installation we are ready for our WebSphere Commerce Developer 6.0 installation. If we are planning to install IBM Sales Center as part of our development environment, we need to install [...]

WebSphere Commerce Developer Enterprise 6.0 installation – Part 1
RAD Installation
WebSphere Commerce Developer is an application that is running on top of Rapid Application Developer 6.0.0.1. The primary requirement for WebSphere Commerce Developer Enterprise installation is RAD 6.0.1.1. If your RAD is an older version, then you need to upgrade your Rapid Application Developer version [...]

Most of the WCS developers are confused with the member subsystem and different types of users in WCS. Here is a small post on the different types of WCS users and their differences.
The member subsystem of WCS handles the users of a WebSphere Commerce site (Member subsystem also covers the organizations, member groups, roles and [...]

A new problem has been found in WebSphere Commerce Server sites. Because of a hard coded date in the product, customers will no longer be able to add items to their shopping carts. All WebSphere commerce sites are affected as all editions of the product has this hard coded date. When customer adds an item [...]

To create a new view command in WCS 5.6 we need to make a couple of database entries. i.e., we need to make an entry in VIEWREG, ACACTION, ACACTDESC, ACACTACTGP tables. For e.g.: if we want to make a new view command ‘MyNewView’, the database entries for this view command to work will be.

INSERT INTO [...]

To create a new controller command we need to make a couple of database entries. i.e., we need to make an entry in URLREG, CMDREG, ACACTION, ACACTDESC, ACACTACTGP, ACRESCGRY, ACRESCGRY, ACRESGPRES tables. For eg: if we want to make a new controller command ‘MyNewCommand’, the database entries for this command to work will be.

INSERT INTO [...]

To add a new menu in organization administration console we need to edit the ‘BuySiteAdminConsole.xml’ which is present in the
the following locations.

Commerce Toolkit installation directory\xml\tools\buyerconsole\BuySiteAdminConsole.xml

or

WCS installation directory\CommerceServer\xml\tools\buyerconsole\BuySiteAdminConsole.xml

If we want to add a new menu, use the menuitem tag or else (ie for adding submenu) use the node tag.
For eg:

Here name of the menu will be [...]

The following code give a reference to HttpSession object in a WebSphere Commerce Controller Command.

HttpSession session = ((com.ibm.commerce.webcontroller.HttpControllerRequestObject) getCommandContext().getRequest()).getHttpRequest().getSession();

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History of 11 year old e-commerce software leader Websphere Commerce.
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