Preparing WebSphere Commerce Developer to do Commerce Enabled Portal development

The following scenario assumes using 2 machines. One will be installed with Rational Application Developer 6.0 with WebSphere Portal 5.1 Test Environment. The other machine will be installed with WebSphere Commerce Developer with Commerce Enabled Portal store published. Even though it is possible to have WebSphere Commerce Developer running both WebSphere Commerce Test Environment and Portal v5.1 Test Environment, for performance reason, two machines for different test environments are recommended.

  1. On the machine on which WebSphere Commerce Developer and Rational Application Developer are installed, download and install the Commerce Enabled Portal package:
    1. On the machine where WebSphere Commerce Developer is installed, download the following zip files:
    2. Ensure that the WebSphere Commerce development environment is stopped.
    3. Extract the contents of the com.ibm.commerce.portals.doc_6.0.0.0.zip file to the following directory:

      RAD_installdir\commerce\eclipse\plugins

    4. To check that the online help has been installed properly (now or at the end of the configuration, restart the WebSphere Commerce development environment), click Help > Help Contents. The Information Center window opens. You should be able to find portals topics in the online help, including topics under Developing, Installing and other categories.

      Note: If you want to install the online help into the production environment, extract the com.ibm.commerce.portals.doc_6.0.0.0.zip file to the following directory, on the machine where the WebSphere Commerce information center resides:
      WC_installdir\CommerceHelpSystem\eclipse\plugins

    5. Extract the contents of the CommerceEnabledPortalDevelopment_6.0.0.0.zip file to the following directory:

      WCDE_installdir

      The ZIP file will be extracted to WCDE_installdir/CommercePortal

  2. Install Rational Application Developer 6.0 and WebSphere Portal 5.1 Test Environment on a separate machine from where you do not have WebSphere Commerce Developer installed. For more information on installing WebSphere Portal 5.1 Test Environment, see the following URL:
    http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpdoc/v510/topic/com.ibm.wp.ent.doc/wpf/wp_intr.html
    
    The following are the high-level steps:
    1. Install Rational Application Developer 6.0 into your CD-ROM drive and run launchpad.exe. From the launchpad, install Rational Application Developer.
    2. Follow the steps in the Rational Application Developer installer. Under Additional Features select Portal Tools in order to install the WebSphere Portal Test Environment.
    3. After you have successfully installed the base Rational Application Developer 6.0 product, install at least the the Rational Application Developer 6.0.1 fix pack.
      1. Launch the Rational Product Updater by selecting Start > Programs > IBM Rational > Rational Product Updater.
      2. Under the Updates tab, update the Product Updater to version 6.0.0.4 if you are prompted to do so.
      3. Under the IBM Rational Application Developer category, you should see 6.0.1. Select 6.0.1 and click Install Updates to install the fix pack. (this step is needed for Portal local test server version 5.1 support).
    4. Install WebSphere Portal Test Environment.
      1. From the WebSphere Portal setup CD, run install.bat.
      2. Follow the steps in the installer. Under setup type, select Test Environment.
      3. Enter the WebSphere Application Server and the WebSphere Portal Server location. For example: C:\RAD6\Portal51UTE\AppServer and C:\RAD6\Portal51UTE\PortalServer.
      4. Specify the WebSphere Portal administrative user ID and password (for example, wpsadmin/ wpsadmin).

      Note: The installation will take up to two hours to complete.

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