WebSphere Commerce Developer is the combination of Rational Application Developer and the WebSphere Commerce toolkit. The WebSphere Commerce toolkit provides a test environment, a workspace, and published starter stores in Rational Application Developer. The test environment and workspace are customized for WebSphere Commerce development.
WebSphere Commerce Developer is configured to use built in payments functionality with the IBM Cloudscape database. As an option, the WebSphere Commerce test environments can be configured to work with a remote WebSphere Commerce Payments server.
Installing WebSphere Commerce Developer for Commerce Enabled Portal
Pre-installation requirements
Before installing WebSphere Commerce Developer, ensure that your machine meets the following hardware and software prerequisites.
Prerequisite hardware
Ensure that the machine on which you want install WebSphere Commerce Developer meets the following requirements before installing WebSphere Commerce Developer:
Minimum hardware | Recommended hardware for using the full test environment |
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Intel(R) Pentium(R) II processor | Intel Pentium III 500 MHz processor or higher |
512 MB RAM | 1 GB RAM |
4.0 GB hard drive space broken down as follows:
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4.0 GB hard drive space broken down as follows:
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800 x 600 display resolution | 1024 x 768 display resolution |
CD-ROM drive | CD-ROM drive |
Prerequisite hardware for Commerce Enabled Portal
If you are installing the development environment for Commerce Enabled Portal, you have to install WebSphere Commerce Developer on one machine, and the Rational Application Developer with WebSphere Portal Tools and the WebSphere Portal Test Environment on a separate machine.
You will need the following hardware:
- One machine on which to install WebSphere Commerce Developer (see hardware requirements in this section).
- One machine on which to install Rational Application Developer with WebSphere Portal Tools and the WebSphere Portal Test Environment on a separate machine. For more information on hardware requirements for the WebSphere Portal Tools, refer to the following URL:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rtnlhelp/v6r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.etools.portal.doc/topics/cportprojover.html
Prerequisite software
You must ensure that you meet the following minimum software requirements before installing WebSphere Commerce Developer:
- Operating system requirements
- One of the following operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition with Service Pack 4 (or higher) applied
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Edition with Service Pack 4(or higher) applied
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server Edition with Service Pack 4 (or higher) applied
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is not supported by WebSphere Commerce Developer.
- Web browser requirements
- In order to use the WebSphere Commerce tools, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 or higher with the latest critical security updates installed.
Prior versions of Internet Explorer do not support the full function of the WebSphere Commerce tools.
Prerequisite software for Commerce Enabled Portal
If you are installing the development environment for Commerce Enabled Portal you will need to install Rational Application Developer 6.0.0.1 with WebSphere Portal Tools and the WebSphere Portal Test Environment.