In 2007 I’ve heard first rumors that IBM uses OpenLaszlo in the IBM WebSphere product line. Some googling revealed the following quote from the IBM website for the WebSphere Commerce version 6.x:
The Management Center user interface is a rich graphical Web-based tool that business users interact with, to manage their catalog, promotion, and marketing assets. The Management Center uses OpenLaszlo open source technology, which involves writing declarative XML files with embedded JavaScript.
WebSphere Commerce provides companies of all sizes with a powerful customer interaction platform for cross-channel and online commerce. The Management Center is built on the Management Center Framework, which includes an OpenLaszlo API for customization of WebSphere Commerce.
IBM WebSphere Commerce Management Center
The latest version of Commerce Development Center has added some features for OpenLaszlo development:
- OpenLaszlo editor
- OpenLaszlo project compilation
- Working with OpenLaszlo files:
- Search OpenLaszlo files by type
- OpenLaszlo hierarchy view
- OpenLaszlo outline view
- Change the default key mappings
- A stack trace option added to OpenLaszlo debug messages
IBM has published some tutorials on OpenLaszlo (Spicing up PHP applications with OpenLaszlo, Web clients fatten up with OpenLaszlo) in the last years, but I wasn’t aware that the company is using OpenLaszlo for creating as large and complex applications as the Management Center within WebSphere Commerce.
When Laszlo open sourced the OpenLaszlo technology in 2004, IBM was the one of the biggest supporter of the OpenLaszlo project, working on an Eclipse based IDE for OpenLaszlo developers. While the IDE project was stopped at some point, it looks like there’s still a lot of interest in the OpenLaszlo technology at the company.
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oh my god..this is awesome…
when will this web will be launchin ?
The IBM Websphere Commerce version using OpenLaszlo launched – as far as I know – in the year 2007.
hi I am new to openlaszlo and i have to make some changes in management center and i am unable to find proper code, I am using RAD tool for developement and i have WCS 7.0 , if you can help me regarding to this.
Sorry, I’ve never user the software myself. Try to ask the questions in the OpenLaszlo forums, IBM support forums or elsewhere. Other community members might have experience with the management center.
how can i integrate openlaszlo with RAD tool .
is there any particular link on which i can study .
Unfortunately I’m not familiar with the RAD tool. Have you tried contacting IBM directly?