Showing posts with label Commerce Composer framework. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commerce Composer framework. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 March 2017

WCS8: Commerce Composer

WCS8: Commerce Composer Framework

What is what - 

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From feature pack 7 of WCS 7 onwards, a new feature called commence composer is introduced which will help the business to change the layout & alignment of widgets without much involvement from IT team. Widgets are independent components which can be plugged anywhere and will perform the pre-defined functionalities.

A Commerce Composer widget is a frame that displays a specific type of store content, such as ads, product recommendations, or navigational links. To create a layout, you add widgets to slots in a layout template, and then set the properties and content for each widget.
WebSphere Commerce provides the Commerce Composer widget library, which offers over two dozen out of the box widgets for creating store pages rich with features to enhance the shopping experience. You can customize the widgets to suit your store design. You can also use widgets from IBM business partners and other sources, if the widgets are developed to be compatible with the Commerce Composer tool.



Installing the Java Emitter Template (JET) package

Procedure
To install the Java Emitter Template (JET).
  1. Start Rational Application Developer or Rational Software Architect, whichever software that you installed for use with WebSphere Commerce.
  2. Click Help > Install New Software...
  3. In the Work with field, enter the following URL and then click Add:
http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/updates/releases/
  1. a name for the repository and then click OK.
  2. Expand the M2T JET SDK 1.1.1 section.
  3. Select Java Emitter Templates (JET) All-In-One Feature.
  4. Click Next to install the JET feature.