Web analytics have been around since the 90’s, but they didn’t gain significant traction in the e-commerce world until the mid-late 2000’s. Web analytics, or tagging, can be broadly defined as adding 3rd party tracking code into your application to [...]
Over the last few years, the use of AJAX has exploded across the internet. Incorporating AJAX into web pages gives them a dynamic element that many users prefer. In the eCommerce industry, AJAX has made its way into many key [...]
Similar to the well-known repository cache and the lesser-known cache droplet, there exists a third type of cache that all ATG engineers should know about. The cache I’m referring to can be used to cache anything in memory. The cache [...]
In a recent blog post, I gave an overview of some of the possible ways to deliver ATG/Oracle Commerce sites to mobile users. I’d like to expand on the subject of ATG implementations in a mobile app. I, for one, [...]
Oracle’s ATG was born in a different time, a time when sites were only accessed from a desktop computer and a time before the concept of “mobile”. To put things into context, the first iPhone didn’t debut until 8 years [...]
Search engine optimization is critical for all sites, and eCommerce sites are no exception. The difference between #1 and #2 on google search results can be thousands of dollars. ATG/Oracle Commerce provides a number of ways at the application level [...]
I’ve been eyeing up the ATG Commerce Reference Store’s native iOS app ever since it was added with Commerce Reference Store (CRS) 10. It’s not too bad, and proves the point that Oracle Commerce/ATG can be ported into mobile environments. [...]
The Commerce Reference Store (CRS) is an important part of Oracle Commerce/ATG because it is a fully functional implementation that is rich in features, and a reference for how to do things for many projects. I originally wrote a blog [...]
ATG/Oracle Commerce modules are simply functional parts of an application that have been given their own organization and identifier. With a large e-commerce project, it might be split into the following modules: Storefront (primarily jsps and config only) Mobile (primarily [...]
ATG repositories provide a rich way to organize and query data from multiple sources. ATG developers should know ATG repositories inside and out because they are such a core part of ATG Commerce. While learning ATG, I found querying ATG [...]