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Automating the IBM Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce customization build process using Eclipse PDE Build

Anthony Wat (acwwat@gmail.com), Staff Software Developer, IBM
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Anthony Wat is a Software Developer for the WebSphere Commerce Build and Development Environment team at the IBM Toronto Lab, Canada. He has extensive experience in build and software configuration management. His recent development work includes WebSphere Commerce Developer and the WebSphere Commerce Build and Deployment (WCBD) tool.

Summary:  This tutorial demonstrates how to automate the build process of the IBM® Sales Center customization with Eclipse PDE Build, which is part of the Sales Center development environment. With an update site created by the automated build process and other installation features offered by the Sales Center, you can safely deploy the customization to client systems with minimal effort.

Date:  27 Apr 2011
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (97 KB | 16 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Using a sample customization scenario, this tutorial demonstrates how you can use a Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) Build to automate the creation of an update site for the IBM Sales Center. Following the Eclipse plug-in development best practices, this tutorial explains how you can organize Sales Center customizations to fit into PDE Build, such as using a top-level build feature and customizing the logic of various steps in the PDE Build process. A custom Ant task is provided with this tutorial to dynamically update the feature qualifiers in the update site template to generate the final update site.

Objectives

Learn how to:

  • Create a top-level build feature to control the build process with PDE Build.
  • Create an update site template.
  • Set up and configure the PDE Build scripts.
  • Customize the PDE Build process to assemble an update site.
  • Run the PDE Build process.
  • Gain insight on other advanced build topics.

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Prerequisites

The tutorial requires a working knowledge of the following:

  • Apache Ant
  • WebSphere® Commerce customization development
  • Eclipse plug-in and Sales Center customization development

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System requirements

This tutorial requires a system with the following software installed:

  • IBM Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce V7.0
  • IBM WebSphere Commerce Developer V7.0 (Enterprise or Professional), with the IBM Sales Center toolkit feature installed

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