Step 1: Viewing the Commerce Enabled Portal starter store in the Commerce Enabled Portal development environment

In order to develop Commerce Enabled Portals, you require the combination of the following development environments:

The Commerce Enabled Portal development environment combined both of these development environments on one machine.

You use the WebSphere Portal development environment features to develop portal related features of the Commerce Enabled Portal, including portlet applications and portlets. For better performance, you are advised to use two separate machines for these two development environments.

You use the WebSphere Commerce development environment features to develop commerce related features of the Commerce Enabled Portal, including JSP files and WebSphere Commerce business logic.

In the first step of the Understanding the development environment tutorial you will view the consumer direct Commerce Enabled Portal starter store in the Commerce Enabled Portal development environment.

To view the Commerce Enabled Portal starter store in the Commerce Enabled Portal development environment, do the following:

  1. On the machine on which the Commerce Enabled Portal development environment is installed, open the WebSphere Commerce development environment.
    1. From the Start menu, select Programs, IBM WebSphere Commerce Developer Business or Professional Edition, WebSphere Commerce development environment.
    2. Specify the workspace. Click OK.
    3. Start the WebSphere Portal Test Server.
      1. At the bottom of the window, click Servers.
      2. Select the server. Right click. From the menu, select Start.
    4. Start the WebSphere Commerce Test Server.
      1. At the bottom of the window, click Servers.
      2. Select the WebSphere Commerce Test Server. Right click. From the menu, select Start.
  2. Open Rational Application Developer.
  3. In the Project Navigator, locate the project you created when you installed and configured the Commerce Enabled Portal development environment.
    1. Right click on the portal project. From the menu, select Run on Server. The Server Selection window displays.
    2. Select the WebSphere Portal server. Click Finish. When the server finishes running, the Winstons store displays in the Web browser.
  4. The Winstons store that you are viewing is the consumer direct Commerce Enabled Portal starter store. Select the Fashion tab.
  5. Scroll down the page until you locate the Women's Fashion section. Notice that the Women's Fashion section contains pictures of and links to three products, but not to any high level categories. In future steps of this tutorial, you will change the Women's Fashion heading to a link to the high level categories in Women's Fashion.
  6. Take some time to explore the rest of the portal store.
  7. When you have finished exploring the portal store, leave the development environment open and running.
  8. Continue the tutorial by following the instructions in Viewing the JSP files for the consumer direct Commerce Enabled Portal starter store in the WebSphere Commerce development environment.

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