IBM WebSphere Commerce 5.5 Payments Cassette Kit README

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About this Readme

This is the README file for the Payments Cassette Kit which can be used with IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Commerce, Version 5.5. The Cassette Kit describes how to write payment cassettes for the Payments component of WebSphere Commerce.

About the Cassette Kit

The Cassette Kit should be used in conjunction with the sample cassette LDBCard and its associated documentation. LDBCard is a fully functioning cassette and is meant to serve as a skeleton upon which you can build your cassettes. Download the LDBCard package from the Web site where you downloaded this package.

What's New?

For details about what is new in this release of the Cassette Kit, you can refer to the WebSphere Commerce Payments Cassette Kit Programming Guide. A highlight of some of the changes follows:

• Changes were made to the WebSphere Commerce Payments directory structure.
• WebSphere Commerce Payments is now installed through the WebSphere Commerce installation program rather than through its own installation program.
• The WebSphere Commerce Configuration Manager is used to create and manage Payments instances and to add payments cassettes to Payments instances.
• Cassette deployment and migration procedures have changed based on changes to WebSphere Application Server.
• WebSphere Commerce Payments uses WebSphere Application Server message and trace facilities rather than its own facilities.

For information about what's new in version 5.5 of WebSphere Commerce, refer to the WebSphere Commerce product documentation.

Cassette Kit Contents

This version of the Cassette Kit contains:

• Cassette Kit Programming Guide, which provides information on how to design and develop cassettes for WebSphere Commerce Payments
• Javadoc for the WebSphere Commerce Payments
• The FSMEdit and FSMGen tools which may be used to assist in developing Finite State Machines (FSMs) within your cassette
• A sample cassette, the Cassette for KitCash, which is contained in a separate package that is available from the Web site where you downloaded this package

Installing the Cassette Kit

The Cassette Kit is delivered as a ZIP file. To install the Cassette Kit, download the ZIP file to your computer and unzip it in the directory of your choice. After you unzip the file, the following subdirectories are created:

• docs/javadoc, which contains the Javadoc HTML for the version 5.5 WebSphere Commerce Payments framework and configuration
• tools, which contains the FSM tools

Viewing the Cassette Kit Programming Guide

The Cassette Kit Programming Guide is provided in PDF format and can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. To view the document, point your browser at docs/WC55PaymentsCassetteKit.pdf.

For a free copy of the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader, visit http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

WebSphere Commerce Product Information

The WebSphere Commerce technical library is available at the following Web site: http://www.ibm.com/software/commerce/library/

WebSphere Commerce support information is available from the WebSphere Commerce support Web site: http://www.ibm.com/software/commerce/support/

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