Security Guide
The Security Guide was addd to E-docs after the 3.5 release was first published in April 2001. The Security Guide is designed to help you leverage the security features of the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition specification and the J2EE-compliant security features of the WebLogic Server platform, Campaign Manager for WebLogic, WebLogic Commerce Server, and WebLogic Personalization Server with Portal Framework.
Additional Platform Certifications
Since the initial 3.5 release in April 2001, a number of operating systems and databases have been added to the certified platforms list. For details, please see the "Supported Platforms and DDL Files" chapter of the Installation Guide.
New Product Bundles
The BEA Campaign Manager for WebLogic, the BEA WebLogic Commerce
Server, and the BEA WebLogic Personalization Server comprise a family
of products that enable you to efficiently build, launch, and
maintain high-performance e-commerce sites.
The Campaign Manager for WebLogic helps you create campaigns for
promoting products and services. It includes both the WebLogic
Commerce Server and the WebLogic Personalization Server.
The WebLogic Commerce Server blends ready-to-run, out-of-the box
commerce functionality with the scalability and flexibility you need
for your e-business operations. It includes the WebLogic
Personalization Server.
The WebLogic Personalization Server customizes and personalizes the
content of your e-commerce site, and tracks visitor interactions for
e-marketing analysis.
Introduction of the E-Business Control
Center
The E-Business Control Center is a tool designed to simplify the way
business professionals manage their online customer relationships.
This 100% Java client is an extremely powerful desktop application
that is easy to use and makes sense to business users by interacting
with them in their own terms. Specialized versions of the E-Business
Control Center are packaged with the BEA WebLogic Commerce Server and
the BEA WebLogic Personalization Server products that may already
support your e-business. Or, you may choose to license the new
Campaign Manager for WebLogic product, which includes the most
comprehensive version of the E-Business Control Center currently
available.
Support for WebLogic
Server 6.0
The Campaign Manager for WebLogic, WebLogic Commerce Server, and
WebLogic Personalization Server products now support WebLogic Server
6.0. The support for this new version of WebLogic Server includes a
WebLogic Server domain, which contains the WebLogic Server
Administration Console and the sample Web applications. A utility to
migrate properties from the weblogic.commerce file to the new WebLogic Server
Administration Console is provided, and the sample Web applications
are reorganized and deployed in a single Enterprise Application.
Enhanced Order Management
The Order Status page, which provides detailed information about a
customer's order, including confirmation number, date submitted,
shipping preferences, special instructions, shipping address, and a
comprehensive breakdown of the individual items contained within that
order, now provides you with the ability to manually change the
status of an order. Based on a state machine you customize to reflect
your organization's ordering process, different status options such
as Authorized, Shipped, Pending, and so on become available for
selection.
Flexible Discounts and Pricing
Services
Discounts and pricing can be applied in a variety of ways including
percentage off, fixed amount off, and fixed price. Discounts may be
applied to product items, whole orders, or shipping. Cross-sell and
up-sell scenarios can be combined with discounts to create strong
incentives.
New Sample Application
This release of the WebLogic Commerce Server includes a redesigned
sample application, based on a hierarchical categorization of
hardware from a sample Sears catalog.
Enhanced Customer Profile
Management
Users have more flexibility to manage and update their own user
profiles, including multiple shipping addresses and multiple credit
cards. Additionally, the user profile now contains a demographic
section. The demographic information is accessed by the WebLogic
Campaign Manager and helps the business analyst manage and create
accurate advertising campaigns tailored to each customer that visits
your e-commerce site.
New Personalization Rules Manager
The new Personalization Rules Manager allows business users to
fine-tune user-system interactions using plain-English commands
within easy-to-use rule editing templates. The Personalization Rules
Manager drives BEA's embedded rules engine and eliminates the need to
master complex Boolean logic to create and edit rules.
Event and Behavior Tracking Service
The Event and Behavior Tracking Service identifies how customers are
interacting with your e-commerce site and records this information to
a database. Event data can be evaluated offline by leading
e-analytics and e-marketing systems to enhance personalization,
customize product offers, and optimize interactive marketing
campaigns.
Placeholders for Display of Promotional
Content
Placeholders provide an easy way for business users to specify where
promotional content should appear on a Web site. Once a Commerce
Business Engineer (CBE) or other technical staff member inserts JSP
tags into the pages, placeholders eliminate the need to call on a
programmer every time the content on the pages needs to change. Users
simply point and click to choose content and place it on pages using
the E-Business Control Center.
Easier Definition of Content
Selectors
Content selectors are now defined in the E-Business Control Center.
In addition, content selectors can now be triggered by events as well
as by other rules, such as membership in customer segments.
New E-mail Service
A new e-mail service facilitates sending personalized e-mail
messages, triggered by user-initiated events. This service uses
JavaServer Pages (JSPs) to generate e-mails, which a Commerce
Business Engineer (CBE) then sends in batches using a simple command.
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