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Admittedly, we rarely hear something like this. The email that I received contained this alarming notice:
A hard coded date is in the product, after which customers are no longer able to add items to their shopping carts. For some store models, this date is 22 June, 2008. All editions and all in-service releases have a hard coded date.
IBM released WebSphere Commerce 6.0.0.4 Fix Pack.
On my current project, we are still at 6.0.0.3. We are in no big hurry to install the fix pack in our environment. That is the case with most environments that are in production or in advanced development stage. But if you are just getting started it helps to start the environments at the latest fix pack level. Most people may have already installed fix pack 6.0.0.2 particularly if they are using Feature Pack 2 in their environment.
PayPal developed Express Checkout plug-in for WCS 6.0. Information about this plug-in is available here and the plug-in may be downloaded from the same location.
IBM released WebSphere Commerce 6.0.0.3 Fix Pack on 8/22/2007.
It has been only a couple of days since it was released. We are in no big hurry to install the fixpack in our environment. That is the case with most environments that are in production or in advanced development stage. But if you are just getting started it helps to start the environments at the latest fix pack level. Most people may have already installed fix pack 6.0.0.2 particularly if they are using Feature Pack 2 in their environment.
Found these two important items from the IBM Commerce Feed that I subscribed to. I find this IBM feed for WebSphere Commerce very useful. This feed discusses several important problems and solutions and an occassional news items regarding WebSphere Commerce - you might find it very useful too!
I think these two items require our attention. The first one is “Featured Documents for WebSphere Commerce Family”. Read the rest of this entry »
WebSphere Commerce 6.0.0.1 Fix Pack has been out for some time now. For those of you who have not applied this fixpack yet, here is the link to download it. The biggest reason why we applied this fix pack: It is a prerequisite for installing and using using WebSphere Commerce Enhancements Feature Pack - particularly for back-end integration using SOA enhancements. Here is a short list(and a complete list)
of important updates in this fix pack:
Now that WebSphere Commerce 6.0 is out, let us take a quick look at what it has to offer to the business process, developers and adminstrators.
At the high level it is a complete revamp over its prior version. There are changes almost at every conceivable level. There are new “separately orderable features” such as IBM Sales Center and IBM Gift Center. Order processing capabilities now include several features that left many wondering how we lived without these features in the past! Most retailers added these features by customizing the heck out of the commerce versions they were using. Multi-tender, multiple ship dates and support for non-taxable items - some of the desparately sought after features - are finally available out of box. If you ever wondered whether Payments Cassettes is easy to use - you will find the answer in this: WebSphere Commerce now provides support for Payment Cassettes for backward compatibility! The new rule for payments is lightweight plug-in architecture. The big deals for stage propagation are the concepts of workspaces and quick and global publishing options.
Now that the core feature list is dumbed down to one paragraph, let us shift gears and focus on what matters the most for the developers.
This site is dedicated to serving the needs of developers and adminstrators working on web commerce projects. The current focus of this site is WebSphere Commerce Suite. Expect to see interesting articles, tips & tricks and notes from the day to day life of a websphere commerce user whether it be an administrator or a developer.
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