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Introduction to Demandware
Demandware is closed-source cloud eCommerce solution and SaaS platform that is mostly used by large
online

retail

companies

such

as:

LOreal,

Lacoste,

Adidas,

Converse,

and

others:

http://www.demandware.com/clients

The programming:

The IDE used is Eclipse, by installing the UX Studio Plugin which interprets Demandware-specific
code; a plugin is also being build for Sublime but is less used at the moment.

The MVC pattern is used:

o

Models are called Scripts,

Views are called ISML,

Controllers are called Pipelines;

Scripts are written in Demandware Script which is a server-side language based on

JavaScript(ECMAScript);

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Pipelines are graphical and look like logical schemas, which make debugging very easy;

ISMLs are nothing but XHTML extended with certain proprietary tags and custom tags that simplify
presentation such as isinclude, isif, iselse, etc;

Debugging is done with: Pipeline Debugger, Script Debugger and detailed error logs;

Demandware Xchange is a closed community similar to Stack-overflow where source code and
explanations are exchanged and lots of education videos and documents are present;

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The Documentation is very well explained, and everything can be looked up easily

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The Administration Panel is called Business Manager, abbreviated as BM which has a lot of useful
features for any online store (products, catalogs, inventory, pricebooks, custom objects, etc.);

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