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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
Generating a search space XML
The steps in this section explain how to generate a search space XML when creating a search space from WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.

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Generating a search space XML

The steps in this section explain how to generate a search space XML when creating a search space from WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.

Procedure

Open the WebSphere Commerce configuration file.
Set the value of the <GenerateXMLFile> tag to " true" <SearchSpaceConfiguration name="Search Space Configuration"> <CompatibilityMode value="true"/> <GenerateXMLFile value="true"/> </SearchSpaceConfiguration>
Restart the WebSphere Commerce instance for the changes to take effect.
Creating a Product Advisor search space using an XML file

Results

Important: The generated XML is specific to creating base search space for a category. To create a separate search category using this XML, refer to the WebSphere Commerce online help. The name of the generated XML will be ss_ categoryID.xml, where categoryID is the category reference number for which the search space is created.