Store assets

In WebSphere Commerce an online store is the place where all transactions for your online business occur. All online stores created with WebSphere Commerce include at least one of the following types of assets:

Storefront
The external portion of your store, or the portion that displays to your customers, is known as the storefront. The storefront is comprised of Web assets such as HTML pages, JSP files, style sheets, images, graphics and other multimedia file types.
Business logic
The portion of your store that processes customer requests, including the commands and any customized code, is known as the business logic.
Store data
The data assets that compose your store. In order to operate properly, a store must have the data in place to support all customer activities. For example, in order for a customer to make a purchase, your store must contain a catalog of goods for sale, shipping methods and shipping charges, taxes, and the inventory to fulfill the request. Your store must also have methods for authorizing and processing payments.

If a store contains all three types of assets, that is storefront assets, business logic, and store data, it is a fully operational store. If a store contains only a subset of the assets, that is it contains storefront assets and business logic, or store data and business logic, or just store data, it is known in WebSphere Commerce as an asset store.

Asset stores

Asset stores are collections of sharable resources (business artifacts, business processes and storefront assets) that can be leveraged in other stores. For example, instead of creating a catalog as part of the hub, a hub may leverage a catalog asset store, which can also be shared by the hub's channels or partners. An asset store is usually composed of the assets that can be used by multiple stores. Typically, an asset store does not have a storefront. For more information, see Relationships between stores.

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