Commerce Enabled Portal tutorials

Commerce Enabled Portal provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks related to creating or changing a Commerce Enabled Portal. Before performing the following tutorials, it is recommended to follow the topics and sub-topics, to import sample applications and portlets. For more information see Commerce Enabled Portal tutorials sample code. The tutorials are meant to be completed sequentially, in the following order.


Commerce Enabled Portal tutorial: Understanding the development environment
This tutorial introduces you to the development environments used in Commerce Enabled Portal. While completing this tutorial you will do the following tasks:
  • View a Commerce Enabled Portal starter store in the Commerce Enabled Portal development environment
  • View JSP files for a Commerce Enabled Portal starter store
  • Familiarize yourself with the tags used in Commerce Enabled Portal JSP files.
  • Edit a Commerce Enabled Portal JSP file and view the corresponding change in the Rational Application Developer with Portal Tools feature

Commerce Enabled Portal tutorial: Adding a WebSphere Commerce feature to a Commerce Enabled Portal
This tutorial guides you through adding a WebSphere Commerce feature to a Commerce Enabled Portal. As part of this tutorial you will do the following tasks:
  • Convert a WebSphere Commerce JSP file to work with Commerce Enabled Portal in the Commerce Enabled Portal development environment.
  • Edit the SubCategoryDisplay.jsp file to display the e-Marketing Spot.
  • Create an e-Marketing Spot in the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.
  • Edit the portlet.xml file.

Commerce Enabled Portal tutorial: Creating a dynamic context relationship
This tutorial guides you through creating a dynamic context relationship between two Commerce Enabled Portal portlets. A dynamic context relationship is created when one portlet displays content dependent on the content of another portlet. As part of this tutorial, you will do the following tasks:
  • Create a new Commerce Enabled Portal portlet
  • Edit the ProductOnlyDisplay.jsp file
  • Define a dynamic context relationship
  • Install the dynamic context plugin

Commerce Enabled Portal tutorial: Enabling communication between a Commerce Enabled Portal portlet and a third party portlet
This tutorial guides you through enabling a Commerce Enabled Portal portlet to communicate with a portlet from a non WebSphere Commerce (or third party) application. As a result, your Commerce Enabled Portal portlet will be able to listen to messages from a third party portlet, and react appropriately to the message. As part of this tutorial, you will do the following tasks:
  • Understand how to extend a Commerce Enabled Portal portlet.
  • Define a portlet in portlet.xml and web.xml
  • Create a third party portlet application project using sample files
  • Create a new page to display the new portlets.

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