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Implementing mobile WebSphere Commerce

Mike Callaghan (mcallagh@ca.ibm.com), WebSphere Commerce Support Analyst, IBM
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Mike Callaghan is a Staff Software Engineer at the IBM Toronto Lab, Canada. He has been part of the WebSphere Commerce Support team since 2005, specializing in runtime components. He was also part of the DB2 Development Infrastructure team, specializing in UNIX scripting and automation. He graduated with Honors from McMaster University, Canada, with a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering
N Krishnan (nkrishna@in.ibm.com), WebSphere Commerce Consultant, IBM
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N Krishnan is an IT Specialist working at the IBM India Software Labs, India. He was part of the WebSphere Commerce development team and currently working as a consultant in IBM Software Services for WebSphere. He was also part of developing retail solutions in the Retail EBO team.
Nicolai Nielsen (nicolai.nielsen@uk.ibm.com), WebSphere Commerce Consultant, IBM
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Nicolai Nielsen is a Senior IT Specialist at IBM Hursley Software Lab, United Kingdom. He has been with the WebSphere Commerce Technology Practice of IBM Software Services for WebSphere since 2006. Before that, he worked as a WebSphere Commerce consultant with IBM Global Services Denmark.

Summary:  This tutorial will take you through an implementation of WebSphere® Commerce storefront for a mobile device. It will show how to create a servlet filter to detect the device used and then map to a specific Struts action. It will also show how to cache based on the device format.

Date:  03 Jun 2009
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (1259 KB | 49 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Before you start

The current trend in online shopping has retailers targeting customers wherever they are, whichever device they are on, rather than being restricted to a traditional desktop. You will go through one implementation of WebSphere Commerce specifically for a mobile device. This tutorial highlights many of the key concepts of how to use the WebSphere Commerce Struts framework to support different displays for each mobile device. You will learn to implement a servlet filter to detect each device and then map it accordingly to a new Struts action. You will also force the display type based on your preference. Finally, you will learn how to cache the pages based on the device format.

Objectives

  • Implement a servlet filter to detect the type of device submitting the request.
  • Create views for specific devices.
  • Switch between mobile and non-mobile views on the storefront.
  • Use Dynacache to cache the views based on device type.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is intended for WebSphere Commerce developers. Knowledge of Struts, strorefront JSPs, and servlet filters is useful, but not required.

System requirements

This tutorial requires the use of a mobile device simulator to test the results. You will need to find a simulator, for example, by searching for one via the Internet. We used an Apple® iPhone® simulator in our practice. The assumption is that the simulator allows you to enter a URL from the local server. This tutorial will provide the URLs to enter into the mobile device simulator.

This tutorial will also assume an IBM WebSphere Commerce Developer v6.0 environment is being used. There is no dependent fixpack or feature pack level.

The out-of-the box ConsumerDirect sample store is used throughout the tutorial.

Duration

2 hrs

Getting started

Extract the provided MobileCommerceCode.zip to a temporary location because you will reference this location as MobileCommerceCode\ from now on.

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