WebSphere Commerce Developer Editions

IBM WebSphere® Commerce Developer editions are available for WebSphere Commerce Enterprise, Professional and Express. It includes everything you need to develop and test end-to-end e-commerce sites. WebSphere Commerce Developer is the most comprehensive development environment in its class, helping you optimize and simplify Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Web services development by offering best practices, templates, code generation and more. WebSphere Commerce Developer is available on the Windows platform only with store publishing capability to all supported WebSphere Commerce platforms.

WebSphere Commerce Developer includes:

• Development database
  An Apache Derby database that is preconfigured to work with WebSphere Commerce and has all of the starter store archives pre-published. The development environment also supports DB2 and Oracle as the development database.

• Rational Application Developer
  Provides an open, comprehensive development environment for building dynamic e-business applications and Web services specifically for WebSphere Commerce:

  
  - Roles based development
  - WSDL design
  - Schema design
  - Service skeleton and proxy generation
  - Interactive Service Explorer
  - UDDI search and publish capability
  - Local and remote WebSphere unit test
  - Test case generation
  - WS-I conformance testing

• WebSphere Application Server V6.0
  Provides a premier Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) and Web services application platform to help build, run, integrate and manage dynamic business applications.

• Tools and plug-ins:
  - Enterprise bean conversion tool
  - JSP batch compiler
  - WebSphere Commerce JSP viewer
  - Optimistic Locking plug-in validating that CMP entity beans can use optimistic locking and migrating EJB projects to use optimistic locking
  

• Starter Stores Facilitate quick and easy online store modification to include those WebSphere Commerce features they want to present to their customers.

• Enhanced store configuration services allow Line-of-Business users to more quickly and easily modify the online store to include those WebSphere Commerce features they want to present to their customers - no IT involvement required.

• Store Creation Wizard provides for easy creation of hosted stores. Key Capabilities include:
  - Store Profile
  - Styles
  - Store Files Mgmt
  - Store Text
  - Store Logo
  

• Extensive online help for application developers with API and command reference information, fully integrated into the development environment.