One of the things that WebSphere Commerce (WC) has always lacked is a good management interface. IBM made the decision many years ago that a browser would be best for managing your store and tasks. And to an extent back then this was a good idea, it gave people easy access to the functionality which could be used from anywhere. But the problem with this is its been left behind. No drag and drop, no sexy functionality and a lot of clicking for anyone administrating the site, usable yes but also past its sell by date given what can be done. And for anyone developing you may never have seen so much Javascript and unlike everything else in Commerce no structure like with Java.
After a lot of work at the end of December 2007 the Commerce team released the new tooling, which can hopefully overcome the above issues. Finally we do get drag and drop and a much better interface, and importantly we get something that developers can customise and build on, and that is very important.
If you want to see this in action then drop an email to bleddyn.williams@morpheus.co.uk or ivor.morgan@morpheus.co.uk
This is the store which is being managed by the tooling.
http://comexpweb.morpheus.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&langId=-1
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