Our article explores a solution used by EPAM for the customer from the retail optical industry, where thousands of products require precise price calculations. The conventional SAP Commerce approach, using a database-backed cart, proved time-consuming, platform-overloading, and inefficient for that specific case. To address these challenges, a new approach was devised: the InMemoryCart solution. This capability is a part of SAP Commerce, yet surprisingly, it remains underutilized and relatively obscure. Unlike the regular Cart, InMemoryCart doesn’t rely on the database but on the memory user session bound object, JaloSession. This innovative solution helped to overcome the complexities and achieve the required level of performance of the pricing calculation process, significantly improving efficiency and page loading times. By shifting the promotional calculations to InMemoryCart, while customers still interact with a regular Cart, this solution has yielded remarkable results, including shortening calculation times on Product Details Pages (PDP) to as low as 100 milliseconds and achieving consistent results for bundles configurator. Read More »
Welcome back! Time has flown by since that first commit to the Plugin repository back in October 2022. With each new day and line of code, the Plugin has evolved, becoming a powerful tool for SAP Commerce developers.
In this article, we’re diving into the features that have emerged between versions 2023.1.1 and 2023.2.7 of the Plugin. No need for elaborate words, let’s get straight to the highlights:
- Project Import 2.0: An upgraded import process with automatic database integration and improved module management.
- Kotlin Integration: Now supporting Kotlin language seamlessly, making development smoother.
- CCv2 Enhancements: New icons and seamless module imports for CCv2. Improved HAC cluster support, OCC enhancements, and better Groovy script management.
- FlexibleSearch 2.0: A revamped FlexibleSearch language with new icons, folding, and improved formatting.
- Type System Evolution: Fresh icons for various types and relations, and a diagramming experience for Type System in Intellij IDEA Ultimate.
- Business Process Refinements: Better code completion, custom language injections, and enhanced scripting support for business processes.
- ImpEx Power-ups: Improved code completion, macro handling, and sld.enabled modifier support for ImpEx files.
- Bean System Mastery: New icons, code completion, and reference enhancements for beans, with conversion possibilities on the horizon.
- User Rights 2.0: Revamped User Rights support in ImpEx files, making management more intuitive.
In my previous article on the Intellij IDEA Plugin (“Plugin”), I described the huge leap forward of the free & open-source SAP Commerce Developers Toolset Intellij IDEA Plugin, documenting myriad of new features, enhancements, and fixes. This article continues the story and will cover changes included in the next version 2023.1.
The article highlights improvements such as:
- API Usage: How JetBrains’s latest batch of deprecated APIs impacts the plugin.
- SAP Commerce in the Public Cloud (CCv2): Dive into the new features simplifying developers’ lives, including the addition of code contributions based on JSON schema.
- SAP Data Hub on CCv2: Explore the complexities and solutions offered for projects utilizing SAP Data Hub.
- JavaScript Storefront: The essential tools and updates for developers working in the SAP Public Cloud.
- Type System: Discover the new usability improvements in preview mode and items.xml.
- ImpEx & FlexibleSearch: Understand the nuances and tweaks in action group displays and custom icons.
- Cockpit NG System: From commons to the business process, take a look at the new references added.
- Extension Info: Dive deep into the added extras for extensioninfo.xml.
…and a plethora of other essential updates, adjustments, and fixes to ensure smoother, more efficient operations for SAP Commerce developers.
Read More »In the previous part, we discussed the importance of redundancy and failover in a cluster setup and introduced JGroups as a crucial component of SAP Commerce Cloud for distributed messaging and eventing. In this part, we will delve deeper into troubleshooting common issues that arise with JGroups in SAP Commerce.
In this article, we will explore troubleshooting tips for common issues related to JGroups in SAP Commerce. We will discuss how to address data inconsistencies, handle dynamic IPs and membership discovery, and effectively monitor the cluster.
It is important to highlight that these recommendations were formulated and tested for the on-premise, self-hosted SAP Commerce. This setup is now rare, as many SAP Commerce projects have already been migrated to the cloud. In the cloud setup, such challenges may never be your concern, as they fall under the responsibility of SAP CCV2 support engineers. However, understanding the limitations and constraints will still help you build the solution correctly.
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There are dozens, even hundreds of test automation frameworks available, and we developed our own. Why? Why? Was it worth the effort? This article describes our needs and our solution, E2E CLI: the architecture of the API testing tool which… Read More »
It has been over three years since Mykyta Kostiuk published his article that launched the SAP Commerce Developers Toolset IDEA Plugin (“Plugin”) as EPAM’s “give back” to the Hybris community. EPAM has been providing continuous support to the Plugin, ensuring its compatibility with each IDEA release, enabling developers to work seamlessly on SAP Commerce (Hybris) & SAP Commerce Cloud. In this article, Mykhailo Lytvyn shares the latest updates following the active development that began in October 2022. You will find a comprehensive overview of the changes made to the Plugin from version v2022.2 to v2022.3.1, along with upcoming plans and ideas for the future. Read More »
This article focuses on how SAP Commerce stores models in memory, which is a vast topic. To begin with, we will explore a relatively simple aspect, such as the unusual structure that appears in the debugger when trying to view the contents of any SAP Commerce model. We will also discuss how to access all the object properties contained within it.
This article contains an overview of the latest updates in SAP Commerce Cloud, version 2211. The update is only available for SAP Commerce Cloud in the Public Cloud and cannot be used for On-Prem or other non-SAP managed infrastructures/servers. The update includes deprecating the accelerator storefront and related addon extensions and introducing the SAP Commerce Cloud, Composable Storefront based on the Spartacus open-source project.
The article goes on to detail the improvements made in Backoffice and SmartEdit, CMS, B2B Commerce as well as other features such as audit logging and HTTP session failover in the platform module, improvements in the yForms module, and new product recommendations in Intelligent Selling Services for SAP Commerce Cloud. Read More »
For those who have been following the development progress of Spartacus, the Angular/Node.js front-end to Commerce Cloud, you may have followed the roadmap information on the SAP GitHub Spartacus repository documentation pages. For many months during 2022 the roadmap statements indicated that release 5 would be towards the end of 2022 comprising a number of user experience and feature improvements, architecture improvements including the need to upgrade the underlying technologies such as the Angular framework.
However, I was a bit surprised (and I suspect other readers also) when SAP announced:
- stopping support on the previous Spartcus versions (4.x);
- that Version 5 would be only available within an authenticated policy to SAP partners / customers; and
- Spartacus is renamed to Composable Commerce.
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I have been discussing where the merchants have multiple instances of SAP-Commerce (hybris) and they want their non-production environments to be “more representative” of the production environment in terms of the data. In the previous part of this article, I looked at the rationale of why data migration is important and a number of various initiatives that have supported this over the years. In this part, I look at the areas of data for migration and the necessary concerns to consider when data is migrated. Read More »
