This chapter describes the installation, configuration and the start of the components of CoreMedia Digital Experience Platform 8.
Section 3.1, “Quick Start” describes the fastest way to get a CoreMedia system up and running on your local machine using the new flexible deployment.
Section 3.2, “Prerequisites” describes the software and hardware requirements that you need to fulfill in order to work with CoreMedia Digital Experience Platform 8.
Section 3.3, “Configuration of the CoreMedia Workspace” describes how you have to configure the workspace and the virtualized setup in order to start developing with CoreMedia Digital Experience Platform 8.
Section 3.4, “Customizing IBM WebSphere Commerce” describes how you have to configure the IBM WebSphere system.
Section 3.5, “Using the CoreMedia Workspace” describes how you can build the workspace and start the component in order to start developing with a running system.
The CoreMedia workspace contains two blueprints, the e-Commerce Blueprint and the Brand Blueprint. Both blueprints can be used together as demonstrated in the example sites (see Section 2.2, “CoreMedia Blueprint Sites”). However, you can also use both blueprints separately. Deactivate the not-used blueprint as described in Section 4.3.2, “Developing with Extensions”. If you do not want to use the e-Commerce Blueprint you can skip Section 3.4, “Customizing IBM WebSphere Commerce”.
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Unless specified otherwise command line examples are given in Unix style. The path to the root
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