
Read about a “Image Crop and Resize 2.0”, the product we developed in a matter of days to win the competition in EPAM! The target was to create an extension for resizing and cropping images to a given size directly in hybris Product Cockpit. Eventually we won the contest! Read More »
In this article, I would like to introduce a new development tool, “FlexibleSearch Chrome Extension”. This utility provides an interface for hybris flexible search queries in more convenient way than hybris OOTB does. Read More »
This post is a reference, semi-autogenerated. It shows the differences in bean definitions between hybris 6.3 and 6.4. Most of the beans have self-explanatory names, so I decided not to add any comments to them to keep the structure clear. Each section has three subsections, “Added beans”, “Changed beans” and “Removed beans”. Read More »
This reference helps with understanding of the key changes in hybris 6.3 the data model Read More »

For SAP Hybris developers using Eclipse, EPAM has created a new tool to increase productivity, ease navigation, and reduce mistakes in day-to-day work. This tool is an Eclipse plugin called SAP Hybris – Developer Toolset. It is easy to install… Read More »

The MoreLikeThis search component (MLT) enables users to query for documents similar to a document in their result list.
I managed to create a working prototype, but the apparent simplicity of MLT integration nevertheless obscures some unexpected challenges and issues. See the details in the article and video. Read More »
This article explains how to disallow specific administrators from editing components of specific content slots. For example, “All administrators from the group “ContentAdmins” shouldn’t have access to any components of the content slot “Footer”. Read More »

Pentaho Data Integration (also known as Kettle) is one of the leading open source integration solutions. With PDI/Kettle, you can take data from a multitude of sources, transform the data in a particular way, and load the data into just as many target systems. For this tutorial, I would like to demonstrate how to convert an XML file containing category data into Category Impex file using Pentaho Data Integration. Read More »

Data migration, as a fundamental aspect of projects on modernizing legacy systems, has been recognized to be a challenging task that may result in failed projects as a whole. One of main reasons for time and budget overrun is the lack of a well-defined methodology that can help handle the complexity of data migration tasks. In this article I tell you about my own experience and my personal vision on the topic. I’ve been testing it in different projects where I was involved in for last 15 years. Data migration tools have been implemented by my teams and me in different programming languages, from Perl to Java. Read More »