Category: Java
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ATG CSC UI Customization
note: this is post three in my ATG CSC and why I hate it series: UI Modification Mostly customers using ATG CSC will want to make at least minor UI customizations. This could include providing information to CSRs about alternate payment types (PayPal, BillMeLater, Gift Cards), displaying customer loyalty program status, or more involved changes…
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ATG CSC Search Issues
note: this is post two in my ATG CSC and why I hate it series: For some unknown reason ATG has replaced the standard Repository based search used for looking up profiles and orders with ATG Search engine based indexing and lookups. First off, I’ve never had any issues with the old Repository based search.…
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ATG CSC and why I hate it
I recently worked on upgrading a client from ATG 2006.3 to ATG 9.1. The upgrade included upgrading Commerce Assist 2006.3 to CSC 9.1. Commerce Assist 2006.3 is the ATG Customer Service application for ATG 2006.3 which allows CSRs to work with user profiles and orders. Commerce Assist 2006.3 is a relatively simple straight forward application.…
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JBoss JMS Doesn’t Create Tables with XA Datasource
The JBoss Messaging service (at least on JBoss 4.3 EAP) defaults to using a local Hypersonic database. For production use you’ll want to switch away from Hypersonic to a real database, such as Oracle (in this example). If you’re using XA datasources in general, it’s tempting to go ahead and create the new DefaultDS datasource…
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Guide for Large Scale ATG Applications
Kelly Goetsch has written a very impressive 64 page guide on the development and deployment of very large scalable ATG e-Commerce applications. There’s a ton of great information (a little bit came from me!) and it’s a worth-while read, even if your application isn’t running on 200 production servers. Unfortunately you have to have an…
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ATG Newsletter Went Out
Our first Spark::red ATG Newsletter was sent on Tuesday morning! We’re pleased and proud to have delivered the first of many monthly ATG Newsletters. In this newsletter we talk about the importance of improving your site performance, especially now that Google is using site performance as a search result ranking factor. We talk about Why,…