Technology Blog

Disable WCS SOLR search features

The steps may vary based on how far you are with your configuration, I wish there was a simpler global setting to enable / disable this fea...


WCS Feature Pack 6 Upgrade

1. su - root 2. Upgrade WAS/IHS and Plugin fix pack level to 7.0.0.27 Refer "Recommended fixes and settings for WebSphere Commerce Ve...


WCS Quick Performance Tuning Cheat sheet

Performance tuning of an application is best achieved and measured through an iterative approach, Although not a comprehensive list the perf...


Websphere Commerce 64 bit Install

  Very recently, WCS V7 FEP2 introduced support for 64 bit WAS, I decided to take a potshot at this on my Oracle Linux 6.3 VM, review the...


Data import options with Elasticsearch

Architecturally there are two approaches for dataload, at the outset, you will have to decide between "push" vs "pull" m...


Cache Invalidation

Cache invalidation can quickly become one of the major bottlenecks of any ecommerce site, and given we end up with multiple cached layers, ...


WAS VMM Custom Object Class mapping in Websphere Portal and Commerce

Context of this blog is to provide guidelines around customization of WAS VMM mapping to custom LDAP Objectclass and it's associated cu...


Session Management in WCS

As compared to other commerce engines like ATG and Hybris, WCS takes a different approach of persisting session data in database tables,The ...


WCS vs Hybris vs ATG - Feature Smackdown

They say "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", so if you are a purist in one of these technologies you would probably never a...