About This Document


The Customization Guide provides guidelines and instructions for customizing iPlanet Market Maker.

This preface contains the following sections:

• Audience

• What's in This Document

• Documentation Conventions

• The Document Online

• Product Support

Audience

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The audience for this document is the programmer who is customizing iPlanet Market Maker.

What's in This Document

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The following table summarizes what each chapter covers.

Table 1    Chapter Summary 

If you want to know about this	See this chapter
Description of contents of this guide; listing of documentation set; information on product support	"About This Document"
How to customize the look and feel of the pages	Chapter 1 "Customizing Web Pages"
How the contents of the iPlanet Market Maker portal page is derived	Chapter 2 "Customizing Display Profiles"
How to customize the functionality of the modules	Chapter 3 "Customizing Modules"
Sample code used to customize the Auction module	Chapter 4 "Customizing the Auction Module"
Sample code used to customize the OMS module	Chapter 5 "Customizing the OMS Module"
How to use iPlanet Market Maker module pluggability	Chapter 6 "Module Pluggability"
iPlanet Market Maker properties that you can configure	Appendix A "Configurable Property Names"

Documentation Conventions

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This document uses the following conventions:

• The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, Application Program Interface (API) and language elements (such as method names and property names), file names, path names, directory names, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.

• The italic font is used in code to represent placeholder parameters (variables) that should be replaced with an actual value.

• Brackets ([]) are used to enclose optional parameters.

• A slash (/) is used to separate directories in a path. (Windows NT supports both the slash and the backslash.)

The Document Online

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You can find this document online in Portable Document Format (PDF) and HTML formats at the following web site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/

Product Support

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If you have problems with your iPlanet Market Maker software, contact iPlanet customer support using one of the following mechanisms:

• iPlanet online support web site at:

  http://www.iplanet.com/support/online/

  From this location, the CaseTracker and CaseView tools are available for logging problems.

• The telephone dispatch number associated with your maintenance contract

So that the technical support staff can best assist you in resolving problems, please have the following information available when you contact support:

• Description of the problem, including the situation where the problem occurs and its impact on your operation

• Machine type, operating system version, and product version, including any patches and other software that might be affecting the problem

• Detailed steps on the methods you have used to reproduce the problem

• Any error logs or core dumps