1. CMS process has been moved from JVM to the DB Catalog Maintenance Service (CMS) fills additional data to the catalog after changes are made to it in the Business Control Center (BCC). In previous versions of Oracle Commerce, CMS [...]
Take a look at some companies that recently launched eCommerce websites and the platforms they chose. See the following posts for more examples: eCommerce Websites that Re-Platformed in 2013/2014 (Part 1) eCommerce Websites that Re-Platformed in 2013/2014 (Part 2) References: [...]
Spark::red has, once again, successfully completed its PCI DSS Level 1 Certification and currently complies with the payment card data security standards for Managed Services Providers. Spark::red takes online security very seriously, going through annual audits by Trustwave to maintain [...]
I’ve complained about the (old) Oracle ATG Commerce licensing scheme in the past, and I can’t express how happy I am that they have introduced a new licensing structure. Moving away from the old core or processor based licensing, to a [...]
In ATG, a scheduled service is a task that executes at a certain time, or on a set interval. ATG applications use many scheduled jobs under the hood. When writing an application, most scheduled services end up in the integration [...]
Earlier this month, Spark::red released Oracle Database and Endeca MDEX plugins for NewRelic and made them available to the general public for free. The plugins capture performance metrics for Oracle Database and Endeca, allowing access to data that was previously unavailable [...]
In April I published a diagram that showed some recent customer migrations between eCommerce platforms - eCommerce Websites that Re-Platformed in 2013/2014 (Part 1). In this post you can find even more examples of such customers. References: Sainsbury’s new multichannel grocery platform [...]
This blog post was originally posted in the ATG Developer Community in 2008. Your server farm may have more than one ATG instance running in the same JBOSS server. If you want to define the separate local configuration layer (with [...]
Earlier this month, Internet Retailer published the 2014 Top 500 Guide. Based on a thorough analysis of the top 100 online retailers listed in the Guide, I was able to gather the following information about eCommerce platforms used by the [...]
This blog post was originally posted in the ATG Developer Community by Spark::red's co-founding partner Russell Moore in 2008. I know a lot of stuff in ATG uses Dojo for javascript, but I have had good luck with JQuery as well. Step [...]