Publishing storefront assets and store configuration files

Publishing the storefront assets, the HTML and JSP files, properties files or resource bundles, and images and graphics that create your store pages, is part of the process of creating a functional store. You can publish your storefront assets using the Publish wizard or the PublishStore utility, as part of the publishing a complete store option, described in Publishing a complete store, or you can publish the storefront assets by simply copying the assets to a specified location on the WebSphere Commerce Server.

If you publish JSP files contained in the starter stores and you plan to change the store flow, you will also need to publish the store configuration files that are part of that store archive. The XML configuration files for the store are located in the following directory in the store archive:

WEB-INF/xml/tools/stores/storedir/devtools/flow

The properties file for the Change Flow notebook are located in the following directory in the store archive:

storedir/devtools/flow/ui

You can publish the storefront assets and store configuration files using the WebSphere Commerce publishing facilities. In order to do so, the storefront assets and store configuration files must be packaged in the store archive format.

If you prefer not to package your assets as a store archive, you can still publish the storefront assets by copying them directly to the WebSphere Commerce Server.

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