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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Developing
The topics in the Developing section describe tasks performed by an application developer.
Presentation layer
WebSphere Commerce uses Java Server Pages (JSP) to implement the view layer of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. The view layer is in charge of retrieving data from the database through the use of data beans and formatting it to meet the display requirements. The view layers determines whether the request is sent to a browser or streamed out as XML. JSP files present a clean separation between data content and presentation.
Customizing marketing
Working with Product Advisor
Creating a metaphor XML input file
Create an XML input file to specify which store's metaphors you want to build, update, or delete with the create metaphor scheduler command.
Preparing a Guided Sell metaphor
The steps in this section explain how to prepare Guided Sell metaphor.
Changing the pfReference setting
This steps in this section explain how to change the product family reference number for a constraint.

Deprecated feature

Changing the pfReference setting

This steps in this section explain how to change the product family reference number for a constraint.

Procedure

Edit the XML input file
Find the <pfReference> element corresponding to the constraint that you want to change. The pfReference element will be inside a <constraint> element.
Set the pfReference value so that it matches the product family number for which you want to search. The product family is the category ID.
Save the XML file.
Update the production server by importing the updated XML file.