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Draft Document for Review July 28, 2004 7:33 pm

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Figure 2-2 User registration and update methods

1.WebSphere Commerce online registration

This involves the registration of members online for the e-commerce Web site. Users will be prompted for registration before catalog navigation or during the order checkout process. This is the most common and direct approach of the user registration method. This method does not support mass registrations.

2.MQ

WebSphere Commerce also supports member registration from back-end systems, such as ERP systems using WebSphere MQ. To enable this method, the WebSphere Commerce message transport adapter and MQ need to be configured. WebSphere Commerce provides an inbound messaging service for creating and updating customer registration. This method is very useful if you have legacy systems, which you need to Web enable. This approach is best suited for an enterprise integration solution. By default, WebSphere Commerce does not provide outbound services over MQ for the Member subsystem.

3.Using LDAP

WebSphere Commerce also supports integration with industry-standard LDAP directory for user registration. If LDAP is used as a user registry, then WebSphere Commerce will synchronize with the LDAP directory, based on the mapping parameters defined in the WebSphere Commerce ldapentry.xml file between WebSphere Commerce and LDAP. When the registered user in LDAP logs into the WebSphere Commerce system, the user entry is replicated on the fly to the WebSphere Commerce store database. WebSphere Commerce will synchronize with the LDAP directory to retrieve and update the user registration.

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IBM SG24-6320-00 manual User registration and update methods