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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 opValueType setting
This steps in this section explain how to change the datatype of the constraint information.

Deprecated feature

Changing the opValueType setting

This steps in this section explain how to change the datatype of the constraint information.

Procedure

Edit the XML input file
Find the <opValueType> element corresponding to the constraint that you want to change. The opValueType element will be inside a <constraint> element.
Between the start and end tags for the element, enter the datatype of the value for the feature that you want the constraint based on. Valid datatypes are listed in the ICDATAREG table.
Save the XML file.
Update the production server by importing the updated XML file.