Keeping Commerce Applications Updated: WebSphere Commerce 5.1 to 5.6 Migration Guide

Migrating complex applications, such as IBM WebSphere Commerce sites, demands a lot of effort and preparation. This IBM Redbooks publication guides you through the process of migrating WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1 applications. It presents a migration strategy, discusses the planning and migration tools that are involved, and explains the production and development environments.This book covers migration from VisualAge for Java V3.5.2 and WebSphere Commerce Studio V5.1 to WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5.1.1, which is included in WebSphere Commerce Developer V5.6, on the Microsoft Windows 2000 platform. It uses a WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1 customer application as the starting point and a sample site for our version-to-version migration scenario.The chapters in this book reflect details about the application as it is today and how it was migrated. Plus it explains the details of the application, the runtime used, the hardware specification, and the degree of customization.Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.