Epuck.com is a Lafayette based online ecommerce company selling ice and inline roller hockey skates, equipment and gear, as well as featuring product news and reviews. It also includes other community features like coaching, workshop tips, and chat events. Innasite's brief was to migrate the existing web application from IBM NET.Commerce to IBM Websphere Commerce Suite 5.4. This required rebuilding the complete flow using IBM WCS 5.4 and integrating with other third party softwares.

The web application is divided into two distinct parts, shopping and community. The shopping domain is handled using WCS 5.4 and the community section has been developed in Java deployed into the WCS framework.

Technology:

The Application is built on the IBM WebSphere Advanced Edition V3.5 with DB2 V7.1 as the relational database of choice. The framework utilizes the MVC architecture and related design patterns with JSP/HTML templates for the presentation and XML for data portability between the Java RMI application and the web application itself. Business logic and controllers were implemented through Java Beans and EJB.Cocoon was utilized content publishing in different presentation mediums.


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