Assets in catalogs and related assets have grown exponentially in e-commerce. The fastest way to access these assets is the local, in-memory caching, but it’s limited by heap size growth, increased database pressure, etc. This white paper discusses an alternative: external caching. A coherence grid enables application caching to scale horizontally by many orders of magnitude when compared with traditional in-memory caching.

Global debugging can help solve complex problems in an ATG Commerce application. This debugging overrides the loggingDebug settings of all components, in all scopes, regardless of their individual loggingDebug settings. This is achieved through an entry in a single file that appears at the end of the CONFIGPATH, which is how it overrides all other settings. You can configure other settings globally in this file as well, but this post will focus on debugging.

Peeking inside a record store can help debug issues related to the Endeca Content Acquisition System (CAS). This article introduces the Endeca RecordStore Inspector utility, and shows how it can be used to fix these issues. The Endeca RecordStore Inspector utility was written using JavaFX 8 and Endeca 11.1, and runs on Windows, Linux or any environment that supports Java 8 runtime.

With the release of content as a service (CaaS) and digital asset management capability in CEC (Content and Experience Cloud), you can now develop custom widgets and customize the product detail page layout in OCC (Oracle Commerce Cloud) to display the digital asset and content item stored in CEC. This post demonstrates how to pass the product ID from a custom OCC widget to the Content SDK / REST API to retrieve the product image stored in CEC. You can then build from this example to support more advanced use cases like blogs, content items etc.