IBM WebSphere Commerce

维基百科：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WebSphere_Commerce

IBM WebSphere Commerce is a software platform framework for e-commerce, including marketing, sales, customer and order processing functionality in a tailorable, integrated package. It is a single, unified platform which offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), with businesses (B2B), indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models), or all of these simultaneously. WebSphere Commerce is a customizable, scalable and high availability solution built on the Java - Java EE platform using open standards, such as XML, and Web services.


There are three editions of WebSphere Commerce. Each edition provides an increasing set of functionality in comparison[5]:

Express
Professional
Enterprise (note: this was previously known as WebSphere Commerce Business Edition)

Since WebSphere Commerce is a highly customizable solution, IBM provides an integrated development environment which can be used to build and test your[who?] customizations, extend the business logic, change the look and feel of your website, and create new logic to meet your requirements. The product used for developing and customizing the platform is called IBM WebSphere Commerce Developer. So there are also 3 editions of the developer product, matching their runtime environments (so called WebSphere Commerce Developer Express, Professional, and Enterprise).[9]

As with other IBM products, WebSphere Commerce Developer uses IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD) for WebSphere software as the foundation of the Java IDE. RAD extends Eclipse environment with visual and other development features.[10]

WebSphere Commerce Developer V6 is based on RAD V6, for WebSphere Commerce Developer V7 it is IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA) or RAD V7.5.4, and for WebSphere Commerce Developer V7.0.0.1 it is RSA or RAD V7.5.5.1


As with most Web applications, WebSphere Commerce has 3 main components:

A database
An application server (Java EE)
A web server

Databases which are supported with WebSphere Commerce V7 are [12]:

IBM DB2 on various platforms (i.e. Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, IBM i), provided with the product
Oracle
Apache Derby (developer only), provided with the (Developer) product.

Application server which is supported with WebSphere Commerce is IBM WebSphere Application Server, also provided with the product.

The supported Web servers are:

IBM HTTP Server, provided with the product
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Sun Java System Web Server
IBM HTTP Server for i5/OS