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The authors' aim to is give the performance of web sites the attention it deserves. Poorly performing web sites frustrate users and lose customers. Today's web site has to be richly featured and personalized to attract consumers. But rich and personalized web sites are the enemy of good performance. The authors explain how a combination of web site design, and the flexibility of dynamic caching, restore a web site to good health. Today's web sites are a demanding mixture of static images surrounded by mini-shopping carts, e-marketing spots and other eye-catching fragments, all of which change from view to view and user to user. There are very few web pages left that can placed in a simple static web server cache. DynaCache, which was developed by IBM Research for the Nagano Olympics, puts caching back into the web site developers' tookbag as the essential performance technology for making web sites built with J2EE applications fly. The authors have written a book for novices and experienced users alike. It explains how to apply the now mature and robust DynaCache technology in WebSphere Commerce v6 to the task of of building highly performing J2EE applications.

WebSphere® Commerce customers are beginning to understand the value of the Extended Sites architecture over the traditional single store design. As a result, there is a lot of client interest in upgrading current sites to the new Extended Sites infrastructure where data is easily shared and managed. This type of site upgrade is different from the typical release-to-release migration where a set of automated tools performs most of the work. Site re-modeling is the term we use for the process of upgrading an existing site to the new Extended Sites infrastructure. Leveraging the Extended Sites capability requires re-designing the existing site and transforming all the existing stores into an organization structure, a series of shared assets, and storefronts. In this paper, we describe the required process of re-modelling from the direct models into the Extended Sites infrastructure. This can also help determine the effort involved in such migrations. To better understand this paper, we recommend that you are familiar with WebSphere Commerce Business Edition. Also, you need a basic understanding of Extended Sites, asset stores, and store-path.

This IBM Redpaper gives a broad understanding of the use of contracts in WebSphere Commerce. It pays particular attention to business accounts and contracts that are only available in IBM WebSphere Commerce Business Edition. We start with a description of key functions and terms relating to contracts and their usage. We then provide a high level overview of the life cycle of a contract, explaining different methods of creating business accounts and contracts. This includes importing XML files or manual creation using the Business Relationship Management Tools provided in the IBM WebSphere Commerce Accelerator. When you understand what business accounts and contracts are and how to create them, you are provided a detailed description of how to manage them using the Business Relationship Management Tools in WebSphere Commerce Accelerator. This is followed by examples of how customers use contracts in a business-to-business (B2B) store. Chapter 6, "Extending the contracts model" on page105," provides overviews of the contracts data model and programming APIs. It then details several examples of how to extend the contracts model. Finally, there are several example scenarios showing how to create and use contracts included in the appendixes.end the contracts model.

Recognizing the e-commerce needs of small, medium and large companies, IBM has developed several editions of IBM WebSphere Commerce V5.5, including Express Edition, Professional Edition and Business Edition. Each of the product editions includes a secure and scalable runtime architecture, a flexible and robust J2EE programming model, and sample stores to speed application development. This redpaper provides and architectual overview of the IBM WebSphere Commerce V5.5 runtime architecture, business and store models and programming model.

This IBM Redpaper introduces a project development methodology that was specifically adapted for the creation of e-commerce sites using the IBM WebSphere Commerce family of software products. This Redpaper details two WebSphere Commerce development scenarios: - Creating a new e-commerce site - Transitioning an existing WebSphere Commerce site built on the Version 4 framework to Version 5.1 or 5.4 This Redpaper describes and documents the use of IBM Transition Tool Suite during a transition project to highlight for the reader how helper tools can be used to automate some, or many, of the transition tasks that are associated with transitioning WebSphere Commerce assets or data. When used properly, helper tools will reduce the overall migration effort and maximize WebSphere Commerce asset or data reuse. Examples are provided to identify for you how the helper tools can be used independently of the development methodology or with it to improve your efficiency. The objective is to document how the tools can be combined with the development methodology to streamline a WebSphere Commerce transition project.

The demands of e-business require an accelerated approach to development and deployment of the applications. Recognizing this need, IBM has developed the IBM Software Strategy for e-business and the Patterns for e-business. The IBM Software Strategy for e-business embodies a strategy for IBM products that includes industry-standard technologies, proven methodologies, and leadership products. The Patterns for e-business are a series of patterns for software reuse and best practices guidelines that are built upon the proven methodologies for implementing the IBM Software Strategy for e-business. A great benefit of this strategy is the ability to develop, for example, WebSphere applications on the Windows platform and to deploy those applications to one of the many supported WebSphere platforms, in this case iSeries, without changing the application. This IBM Redpaper will introduce the Patterns for e-business and the business-to-business (B2B) e-Marketplace patterns used for building B2B e-commerce Web sites. The focus of this Redpaper is on the unique implementation and deployment considerations when using IBM WebSphere Commerce Business Edition V5.4 for iSeries. We have included detailed procedures for implementing IBM WebSphere Commerce Business Edition V5.4 for iSeries in single-tier and multi-tier runtime environments. Advanced configuration instructions are provided for integrating WebSphere Payment Manager and enabling SSL for the HTTP Server. Once the runtime environment is configured, we describe, in det