Keeping commerce applications updated : WebSphere commerce 5.1 to 5.6 migration guide / [Hernan Cunico ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cunico, Hernan.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic commerce--Computer programs.

Electronic commerce.

Business enterprises--Data processing.

Business enterprises.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

xvi, 278 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

WebSphere Commerce 5.1 to 5.6 migration guide

Place of Publication:

Raleigh, NC : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Migrating complex applications, such as IBM WebSphere Commerce sites, demands a lot of effort and preparation. This IBM Redbooks publication guides you through the process of migrating WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1 applications. It presents a migration strategy, discusses the planning and migration tools that are involved, and explains the production and development environments. This book covers migration from VisualAge for Java V3.5.2 and WebSphere Commerce Studio V5.1 to WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5.1.1, which is included in WebSphere Commerce Developer V5.6, on the Microsoft Windows 2000 platform. It uses a WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1 customer application as the starting point and a sample site for our version-to-version migration scenario. The chapters in this book reflect details about the application as it is today and how it was migrated. Plus it explains the details of the application, the runtime used, the hardware specification, and the degree of customization. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Part 1 Migration with WebSphere Commerce V5.6

Chapter 1. An overview of WebSphere Commerce V5.6

1.1 Product overview

1.2 WebSphere Commerce software components

1.2.1 Web server

1.2.2 WebSphere Application Server

1.2.3 Database server

1.2.4 WebSphere Commerce Server

1.2.5 WebSphere Commerce Payments Server

1.2.6 Enablement software

1.3 WebSphere Commerce Server subsystems

1.3.1 Member subsystem

1.3.2 Catalog subsystem

1.3.3 Trading subsystem

1.3.4 Order subsystem

1.3.5 Merchandising subsystem

1.3.6 Marketing subsystem

1.3.7 Inventory subsystem

1.3.8 Messaging subsystem

1.4 WebSphere Commerce Tools

1.5 WebSphere Commerce business models

1.5.1 Direct sales

1.5.2 Value chain

1.5.3 Hosting ex-sites

1.6 What's new in WebSphere Commerce V5.6

1.6.1 WebSphere Commerce development environment

1.6.2 WebSphere Commerce Payments

1.6.3 Configuration Manager

1.6.4 Loader Package

1.6.5 Password Manager

1.6.6 Adapter for CrossWorlds

1.6.7 Catalog and product management

1.6.8 Business models

1.6.9 Access control

1.6.10 Collaboration

1.6.11 Campaigns and promotions

1.6.12 Order and inventory management

1.6.13 Analytics

1.6.14 Security

1.6.15 Caching

1.6.16 Product Advisor

Chapter 2. Migration strategy and planning

2.1 Migration strategy considerations

2.1.1 Adding or replacing functionality

2.1.2 Taking advantage of DynaCache

2.1.3 Optimization

2.1.4 External product and user management

2.1.5 How custom code impacts the process

2.1.6 Preparing a detailed plan

2.2 Migration planning

2.2.1 Skill requirements

2.2.2 Hardware and software prerequisites.

2.3 Product versions mapping

2.4 Migration approach for a development environment

2.5 Migration approaches for a runtime environment

2.5.1 Switch-over migration scenario

2.5.2 Co-existence migration scenario

2.5.3 In-place migration scenario

2.6 Approach used for this migration

2.6.1 Overview of the development migration

2.6.2 Overview of the production environment migration

Chapter 3. Commerce application used in the migration

3.1 Commerce application

3.1.1 Application environment

3.2 Commerce customization

3.2.1 Shopping flow

3.2.2 Commands

3.2.3 Database tables

3.3 Catalog

3.4 Database

Part 2 Development environment

Chapter 4. Installing the WebSphere Commerce V5.6 development environment

4.1 Development environment overview

4.2 Pre-installation requirements

4.2.1 VisualAge for Java V4.0 prerequisites

4.3 WebSphere Studio Application Developer

4.3.1 Pre-installation steps

4.3.2 Installing WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5.1.1

4.3.3 Applying fixes to the test environment

4.4 WebSphere Commerce V5.6 Toolkit

4.4.1 Installing the toolkit

4.4.2 Verifying the installation

4.5 DB2 Universal Database V8.1

4.5.1 Backing up development databases

4.5.2 Installation requirements

4.5.3 Preparing a Windows user for DB2

4.5.4 Installing DB2 Universal Database V8.1

4.5.5 Installing DB2 Universal Database fixpack 5

4.5.6 Migrating databases to DB2 Universal Database V8.1 level

4.6 Configuring the development environment for DB2

4.7 VisualAge for Java V4.0

4.7.1 Installing VisualAge for Java V4.0

4.7.2 Configuring VisualAge for Java V4.0

Chapter 5. Pre-migration steps

5.1 Preparation overview

5.2 Preparing the development instance

5.2.1 Updating the product information file

5.2.2 Preparing resources.

5.2.3 Merging EJB groups

5.2.4 Exporting code from VisualAge for Java V3.5.3

5.3 Preparing the database

5.3.1 Updating the database configuration values

5.3.2 Unsent messages

5.3.3 Order status

5.3.4 Catalog

5.3.5 Members

5.3.6 Custom message types

5.3.7 Dropping foreign key references

5.3.8 Erroneous data in encrypted fields

Chapter 6. Migrating the development environment

6.1 Current development environment

6.2 Development environment migrated

6.3 Migrating the development instance

6.3.1 Overview of the WCIM tool

6.3.2 Running the tool

6.4 Migrating the development database

6.4.1 Migrating unencrypted data

6.4.2 Migrating encrypted data

6.4.3 Summary

6.5 Migrating custom EJBs

6.5.1 Overview of the migration process

6.5.2 Exporting the EJB project from VisualAge for Java V3.5.3

6.5.3 Importing the EJB projects into VisualAge for Java V4.0

6.5.4 Regenerating the deployed code for the EJBs

6.5.5 Exporting EJBs as EJB 1.1 JAR files

6.5.6 Importing EJBs into WebSphere Studio Application Developer

Chapter 7. Post-migration steps

7.1 Setting up aliases

7.2 Migrating custom code

7.2.1 Access control

7.2.2 Command parameter validation

7.2.3 User registration

7.2.4 Logon command

7.2.5 Calculation usage framework

7.2.6 Configuration and code changes for migrated EJBs

7.2.7 J2EE Connector Architecture

7.2.8 Pricing

7.2.9 Product Advisor

7.2.10 Rule server administration commands

7.2.11 JSP and property file changes

Part 3 Production environment

Chapter 8. Installing WebSphere Commerce V5.6

8.1 Single-node runtime overview

8.1.1 Hardware

8.1.2 Software

8.2 Installing on a single-tier node

8.2.1 Installing WebSphere Commerce V5.6

8.2.2 Configuring IBM HTTP Server

8.3 Verifying the installation.

8.3.1 Verifying the installation log files

8.3.2 Creating a test instance

8.3.3 Removing the test instances

Chapter 9. Pre-migration steps

9.1 Preparation overview

9.2 Preparing the instance

9.2.1 Updating the product information file

9.2.2 Preparing the resources

9.2.3 Disabling security on WebSphere Application Server

9.3 Preparing the database

9.3.1 Unsent messages

9.3.2 Copying the database from Commerce V5.1 to Commerce V5.6

9.3.3 Updating the database configuration values

9.3.4 Orders status

9.3.5 Catalog

9.3.6 Members

9.3.7 Custom message types

9.3.8 Dropping foreign key references

9.3.9 Erroneous data in encrypted fields

Chapter 10. Migrating WebSphere Commerce components

10.1 Migration overview

10.2 Migrating the commerce instance configuration

10.2.1 Migrating the instance

10.3 Migrating commerce database

10.3.1 Migrating the database

10.3.2 Choosing the master catalog

10.3.3 Migrating the encrypted data

10.4 Migrating Payment Manager

10.4.1 Installing a fixpack for WebSphere Payment Manager

10.4.2 Installing the WebSphere Commerce Payments remote node

10.4.3 Packaging and transferring the WCIM tool

10.4.4 Backing up the WebSphere Payment Manager instance

10.4.5 Backing up the WebSphere Payment Manager database

10.4.6 Transferring assets to WebSphere Commerce Payments node

10.4.7 Restoring the WebSphere Payment Manager database

10.4.8 Migrating the WebSphere Payment Manager instance

10.4.9 Migrating the WebSphere Payment Manager database

Chapter 11. Post-migration steps

11.1 Post migration steps for IBM HTTP Server

11.1.1 Migrating static content

11.1.2 Updating the configuration

11.2 Deploying

11.2.1 Deploying EJBs

11.2.2 Deploying commands and databeans

11.2.3 Deploying the store assets

Part 4 Appendixes.

Appendix A. Managing WebSphere Commerce components

WebSphere Commerce instance management

Checking the instance status

Starting the instance

Stopping the instance

WebSphere Commerce Payments instance management

Starting the Configuration Manager

Restarting IBM HTTP Server

Modifying the trace strings for a running server

Tracing with the WebSphere Commerce V5.6 Toolkit

Tracing for the Lightweight WebSphere Test Environment

Tracing for a Full WebSphere Test Environment

Creating missing password scripts

Creating the wcs_password script

Creating the wcs_pmpassword script

Appendix B. Backing up WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1

File system

Default directories

Custom directories

Database

Database backup

Appendix C. Migration scripts

WebSphere Commerce V5.6 migration scripts behavior

migratedb.bat behavior

migrateEncryptedInfo.bat behavior

wcim.bat behavior

Custom database migration scripts behavior

Database preparation batch script

Database preparation SQL script

Database migration batch script

Database post migration batch script

Database post migration SQL script

Appendix D. Moving from a single to multi-node environment

Single-node environment

Installing and configuring the database node

Creating a Windows user for DB2

Installing DB2

Moving the database

Connecting to the remote database

Verifying connectivity

Appendix E. Additional material

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

How to use the Web material

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

61323241