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The information contained in this section applies to WebSphere Commerce Version 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in a newer section.WebSphere Commerce is a single, unified e-commerce platform that offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), directly with businesses (B2B), and indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models). WebSphere Commerce is designed to be a customizable, scalable, and high availability solution that is built to leverage open standards. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels.
Tutorials
WebSphere Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your WebSphere Commerce instance and stores.
Programming model
WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to creating customized code to develop and enhance WebSphere Commerce applications. The following tutorials provide sample guides to customizing elements of the WebSphere Commerce programming model.

User Guide
The information contained in this section applies to WebSphere Commerce Version 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in a newer section.WebSphere Commerce is a single, unified e-commerce platform that offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), directly with businesses (B2B), and indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models). WebSphere Commerce is designed to be a customizable, scalable, and high availability solution that is built to leverage open standards. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels.
- Planning
  Creating a custom implementation of a WebSphere Commerce store requires a significant amount of planning. From gathering client needs, to deploying the live solution, much work is needed to successfully deploy a custom client store. Use the resources in here to help you plan every phase of store creation.
- Installing
  Review the following sections for information about installing the WebSphere Commerce product, associated maintenance, and WebSphere Commerce enhancements.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to WebSphere Commerce Version 8.0, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Deploying
  The topics in this section describe how to publish stores to either a test or production environment, and how to deploy customized code.
- Operating
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using WebSphere Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
- Tutorials
  WebSphere Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your WebSphere Commerce instance and stores.
  - Programming model
    WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to creating customized code to develop and enhance WebSphere Commerce applications. The following tutorials provide sample guides to customizing elements of the WebSphere Commerce programming model.
    - Modifying a controller command
      This tutorial demonstrates how to modify an existing controller command. In this tutorial, you restrict the number of items in a customer's shopping cart to five or fewer unique items. To implement this solution, you override the OrderItemAddCmdImpl class with your own implementation. The implementation includes logic to check for the number of items in the shopping cart. If a customer attempts to add a sixth item to the shopping cart, an exception is thrown. This exception uses a new error message.
    - Extending a BOD service to manage UserData with the data service layer
      In this tutorial, you customize the catalog service to support retrieving UserData information for use as catalog entry properties. This customization updates the WebSphere Commerce database to store the new information and customizes the catalog service to support the new information. The new information is included as UserData in the CatalogEntry noun.
  - Web services
    Web services tutorials introduce the various tasks that are related to creating and customizing web services for WebSphere Commerce applications.
  - Management Center
    WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing Management Center.
  - WebSphere Commerce search
    WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to describe how to customize WebSphere Commerce search.
  - Starter stores
    WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing the storefront.
- Samples
- Developing
  The topics in the Developing section describe tasks performed by an application developer.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage WebSphere Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of WebSphere Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
- Troubleshooting

Programming model tutorials

WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to creating customized code to develop and enhance WebSphere Commerce applications. The following tutorials provide sample guides to customizing elements of the WebSphere Commerce programming model.