Commerce Suite has a noticeable split personality when it comes to development. Meanwhile, other pages such as sign-on and shopping cart pages are based on IBM's Net. Being able to use standard development technologies such as JSP is a big step forward for users, but IBM won't complete the move to Java until the next release of Commerce Suite. The package requires a broad set of skills to use and will take time to master, but it rewards the effort with a rich feature set and extensive customizability. A larger set of store usage reports delivers better business data than earlier versions.
LDAP integration lets the package plug into a company's user management system.
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