WebSphere Commerce Development

The WebSphere Commerce development environment builds on top of WebSphere Studio Application Developer, which is the core development environment from IBM. It helps you optimize and simplify Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Web services development by offering best practices, templates, code generation, and the most comprehensive development environment in its class. This sophisticated integrated development environment (IDE) includes integrated support for Java components, enterprise beans, servlets, JSP files, and HTML, XML, and Web services all in one development environment.


There are five main components to the WebSphere Commerce development environment:


With this development environment, we can thus create customized code and test it within the context of the WebSphere Commerce test environments.


WebSphere Commerce Developer Editions

IBM® WebSphere® Commerce Developer editions provide a team-based integrated development environment for e-commerce sites.

The WebSphere Commerce development environment builds on top of IBM Rational® Application Developer, which is the core development environment from IBM.

  • Available as Enterprise, Professional and Express editions, each copy includes the commerce toolkit, runtime, and a copy of the IBM software infrastructure for commerce development use
  • Helps you optimize and simplify Java™ 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) and Web services development by offering best practices, templates, code generation, and the most comprehensive development environment in its class
  • Includes integrated support for Java components, enterprise beans, servlets, JSP™ files, HTML, XML, and Web services all in one environment
  • Enables you to create customized code and then test the code using the WebSphere Commerce Test Server
  • Includes comprehensive online help and business process models, which are critical resources for application developers
  • Operating systems supported: Windows 


Customize WebSphere Commerce Management Centre using Open Laszlo

WebSphere Commerce provides companies of all sizes with a powerful customer interaction platform for cross-channel and online commerce. The Management Center is built on the Management Center Framework, which includes an OpenLaszlo API for customization of WebSphere Commerce.

The latest version of Commerce Development Center has added some features for OpenLaszlo development:

  • OpenLaszlo editor
  • OpenLaszlo project compilation
  • Working with OpenLaszlo files:

             Search OpenLaszlo files by type
             OpenLaszlo hierarchy view
             OpenLaszlo outline view

  • Change the default key mappings
  • A stack trace option added to OpenLaszlo debug messages