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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.

Deprecated feature

Preparing a Guided Sell metaphor

The steps in this section explain how to prepare Guided Sell metaphor.

Procedure

Create an XML input file
To build a Guided Sell metaphor, type the following between the store begin and end tags: <SalesAssistant SACID="category number"> </SalesAssistant> Where the SACID value identifies the category for which the metaphor is being created.
Insert a template element between the metaphor begin and end tags to specify the JSP page that the metaphor will be based upon. This will be the default page for the metaphor. The template element will look similar to the following: <template>sa51.jsp</template> Where sa51.jsp would be replaced by the path and file name for some JSP that you have created for this purpose.
Place the following elements between the metaphor begin and end tags, but after the template element for each metaphor you want to update: <metaphorLink></metaphorLink> <qnaTree></qnaTree>
The metaphorLink element serves as the default link used by the Guided Sell metaphor when an answer does not link to another question, and does not specify its own metaphorLink. For more information about the content for these tags, refer to the following topics:
Save the XML file.
Update the production server by importing the updated XML file.