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 droplet does this, but it has the limitation of having to be invoked from a
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. Here are the steps I took to get the app completely functional. This is a
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 post on installing CRS with ATG 10, but thought I’d make an update for ATG
IBM’s new report on the performance of VM and Linux Containers from July 21, 2014, while primarily demonstrating the relative performance advantages of Linux Containers (such as Docker), contains a great deal of current performance information on VMs that is extremely relevant, especially if you are running a CPU or I/O intensive workload, such as
The Oracle ATG Commerce Reference Store is ATG’s demo application showcasing ATG development best practices. Many developers use the ATG Commerce Reference Store as an environment for building and testing custom modules because the Commerce Reference Store is very similar to most production ATG applications. Besides being a vessel for development, many ATG projects use
Oracle/ATG development has historically been dominated by Windows machines. There have been a small number of people migrating over onto Mac OSX because, well, Apple makes a great computer for development. Oracle and ATG have been slow to catch on to the users migrating over to Apple, and haven’t begun officially supporting an OSX ATG