IBM SG24-6320-00 What’s new in WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Commerce Development Environment

6320ch_sum_of_changes.fm Draft Document for Review July 28, 2004 7:33 pm

Ex-Site

An Extended Site, or Ex-Site, is a business-to-business Web site that provides a richly featured site where the selling organization can set up different storefronts to target each of their business customers. When a business customer enters the Ex-Site storefront, any discounts, product configurations, and special instructions particular to that customer are displayed.

All features of the advanced B2B direct starter store, such as approvals, and account management also apply in a Ex-Site. The distinguishing characteristic of a Ex-Site is that the Seller can provide a customized storefront and customized catalog to each business partner or customer.

2.6 What’s new in WebSphere Commerce V5.6

This section provides many of the key enhancements you would find in WebSphere Commerce with some explanation about them. This list should not be considered a comprehensive list of enhancements going from WebSphere Commerce 5.1 to WebSphere Commerce 5.6. Each release of the product includes a separate document on “What’s New” in that release. For a complete list of changes, with detailed explanations, for a given release please refer to such documents.

2.6.1 WebSphere Commerce Development Environment

WebSphere Commerce Studio is now known as WebSphere Commerce Developer. It is based on the Eclipse technology. The development environment is a fully configured workspace for WebSphere Studio Application Developer with various enhancements.

Unlike the VisualAge for Java based development environment for WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1, a WebSphere Commerce run-time environment is not required.

The WebSphere Test Environment uses full WebSphere Application Server base edition to give you a more precise testing experience.

WebSphere Commerce provides you with two pre-configured servers for your testing needs in development environment - Full WebSphere Commerce Test Environment and Lightweight WebSphere Commerce Test Environment.

Here are some noteworthy version level changes:

The Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) specification level has changed from 1.0 to 1.1.

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