Madisons starter store

The Aurora starter store replaces the Madisons starter store. The Aurora starter store showcases the latest in storefront features and models best practices in store development, demonstrating a wide scope of retail scenarios.

The Madisons starter store demonstrates best practices in store development with WebSphere Commerce, and can act as a base for implementing storefronts. It uses Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) and Dojo widgets to provide customers with an interactive and rich shopping experience. It addresses many common web customization issues by using CSS and DIV tags for page layout, design and styling, rather than overusing table elements throughout the page. The store can be used as a stand-alone store by using the consumer direct business model or as an asset store in Extended Sites or Demand Chain business models.

The Madisons starter store delivers feature-rich and interactive web applications that are compatible across platforms and browsers by taking advantage of Ajax and Dojo widget technologies. Ajax technologies enable web applications to retrieve data from the server asynchronously, while the browsing session remains intact. That is, refresh areas are present in pages for areas where content can be changed on the page, such as a shopping cart. Dojo widgets enable the store users to dynamically interact with the pages, such as adding the ability to quickly view product information, rather than navigating to the specific individual product pages.

WebSphere Commerce services are used in the Madisons starter store for all marketing, member, and order component interactions. Product attributes are retrieved with catalog services. The starter store uses data beans and commands when required, as all runtime functionality is not available by using services alone.