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6320ch_intro.fm Draft Document for Review July 28, 2004 7:33 pm
4 Keeping Commerce Applications Updated WebSphere Commerce 5.1 to 5.6 Migration Guide
1.1 Overview
Migrating complex applications as WebSphere Commerce always demands a lot
of effort and preparation. In this book we used a WebSphere Commerce Suite
V5.1 customer application as the starting point, a sample site, for the
version-to-version migration scenario.
This book covers all the steps we followed to migrate that application as well as
the development environment from WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1 to
WebSphere Commerce V5.6.
Some things were changed from the original customer scenario, some extra
customization has been done in order to make that application more generic and
to cover more topics during the migration process. The following chapters will
provide details about the application as it is today and how is was migrated.
For a real WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1 customer environment we choose
Carrot Bunch Companies, Inc. We will refer to this customer from now on as
Carrot Ink. This customer is already a success story implementing WebSphere
Commerce Suite V5.1 in 2002, the following URL provides the details of this
implementation.
http://www.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/CDIR-5GRNK9
Changes done from the original customer environment (just for the purposes of
this book) and the differences from the default (out-of-the-box) implementation in
terms of WebSphere Commerce customization, Catalog, Database and
shopping flow are described in detail in Chapter 4, “Commerce Application used
during the migration” on page 55.
1.2 Structure of the book
This book is organized in parts and it is designed to easily identify the general
concepts for the migration planning, then proceed with the actual migration
procedures for both production and development environments.
Part 1, “Introduction to WebSphere Commerce V5.6”
Part 1 of the book describes how the book is laid out, what is new in WebSphere
Commerce V5.6, strategy and planning as well as a description of the customer
application we migrated. This part of the book is organized as follows:
Chapter 1, “Introduction”
Chapter 2, “WebSphere Commerce V5.6 Overview”
Chapter 3, “Migration Strategy and Planning”