Feature Pack 8: The Madisons store is deprecated. Most features demonstrated in the Madisons store are available in the Aurora store.

Tutorial: Adding support for a Management Center tool to the Deprecated featureMadisons starter store

Feature Pack 8: The Madisons store is deprecated. Most features demonstrated in the Madisons store are available in the Aurora store. This tutorial shows you how to add a category, the Recipe tool, to Deprecated featureMadisons starter store. You will also implement some new functionality to enhance interactive and rich shopping experience when browsing a recipe. The tool that you are creating will use the services provided by the Project service module that you created in Tutorial: Creating the Project BOD service module. You can refer to Tutorial: Adding a Recipe tool to Management Center as a reference.

Learning objectives

After completing this tutorial, you should be able to:
  • Create a new Web 2.0 page
  • Create a pop-up window to display the information
  • Use refresh area
  • Invoke AJAX services call

Time required

Expect this tutorial to take about 3–4 hours to complete.

Skill level

Advanced

Audience

This tutorial is intended for WebSphere Commerce developers who customize the Madisons starter store.

System requirements

Before beginning this tutorial ensure that you have:
  • Installed WebSphere Commerce Version 7
  • Installed WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7
  • Installed the Java Emitter Template (JET) package
  • Downloaded and unzipped the completed tutorial code into a temporary file folder, such as TutorialSource. During the lessons, you will be instructed to copy code from TutorialSource into your project, where TutorialSource is the location where you unzipped the sample source code.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have completed the following prerequisites: