New Demo Site and Streamlined "Getting Started" Approach Help Developers Build Solutions Quickly.
It used to be fairly straight forward to grab your tweets and repost them to your website. One would simply need to hit a URL and be treated with the gold mine of the nuggets of brilliance that one had tweeted. All setup aside, one could get their eCommerce website to retrieve and post by simply parsing the results and posting them as needed.
I'm currently in Washington, DC at the excellent SpringOne conference. I had the honor of presenting yesterday at the conference. My presentation was titled "An Introduction to Broadleaf Commerce: A Spring Enabled eCommerce Framework". I discussed the features of Broadleaf Commerce, complete with a demo of the Broadleaf starter application and administrative console. I also presented a case study that demonstrated how to build flash sales functionality with Broadleaf.
In this article, we'll cover some of the issues surrounding session fixation attacks, common exploits, various protection mechanisms against it, and also how Broadleaf handles this interesting security problem.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to deploy the Broadleaf Demo to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. If you don't have the Broadleaf Demo already built and ready to go, please follow the Getting Started tutorial first.
Despite the recent departure of Eran Hammer, one of the lead authors and editors, from the OAuth 2.0 specification with what would seem to be a crippling end to the very popular protocol, the OAuth 2.0 Sky is in fact NOT falling. Hammer cites one of the main reasons for leaving the specification is the fact that the specification is "getting more complex, less interoperable, less useful, more incomplete, and most importantly, less secure."
Broadleaf Commerce is now offering instructor led training classes in Dallas, TX.
Security is one of my favorite topics, and I really enjoy working with it any chance I get. Recently, I wanted to establish a really easy way to secure Broadleaf Commerce against CSRF attacks.
There's an old saying that it's bad manners to talk politics and religion. It's likely true that the same can be said for discussing which enterprise application development framework is the best - Spring or Java EE 6.
In part 1 of this series we learned how to manipulate an image once we had uploaded it into the dynamic image server. In part 2, we will cover Named Operations, which allow us to add several filters without having mile long URLs.
This post is a continuation off of the 1.6 instructions. Most of the instructions are pretty much the same. If you don’t want to follow the instructions here, you can check out a ready-to-go Heroku configured application that I have on GitHub.
Broadleaf Commerce, the Enterprise Open Source eCommerce Platform, now includes support for Ratings and Reviews of products for the demo site, The Heat Clinic.
We are proud to announce Solr-backed searches as a new feature of Broadleaf Commerce 2.0! Solr is a renouned, blazing-fast search index that Broadleaf now uses to produce product search results.
Having successfully completed an extremely fast and agile Java e-commerce project recently, I thought it would be fitting to share some of my thoughts on the process, patterns, and technologies that were used.
Ganz, the maker of Webkinz®, recently relaunched its eStore with Broadleaf Commerce, an enterprise open source ecommerce platform, and Credera, the implementation partner.
I recently discovered a useful tool that is part of the Broadleaf Commerce application which allows you to upload a single hi-resolution image that you can then manipulate through URL parameters.
Broadleaf Commerce, an enterprise class, open source eCommerce framework is built on The Spring Framework. As such, Spring Security is a natural choice to provide security for Broadleaf Commerce, even when using an authentication mechanism like Active Directory.
Broadleaf Commerce was the selected platform and was able to accommodate LLUSTRE's unique business model with short flash sales events, management of perishable consignment inventory, European currencies, a unique social credit system, and flexible promotions - all within a six week timeframe.
Version 1.6 includes important structural changes, administration improvements, and promotion engine improvements.
Broadleaf Commerce is an enterprise class, open source eCommerce framework currently available on GitHub here. It is built in Java on top of frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate, among other things. So if you have not checked it out, I highly recommend downloading the Maven archetype (ecommerce-archetype) and getting the demo application up and running. The tutorial outlined below assumes that you already have a basic knowledge of how Broadleaf works and that you understand the basics of product extensions...
I have been working a lot lately with Broadleaf Commerce and wondered what it would take to deploy it on VMware's Cloud Foundry. There are already a number of blogs and sources of documentation out there describing the simplicity and steps to deploy a Java / Spring web application to Cloud Foundry. However, there are a few key considerations with Broadleaf that I wanted to test and talk about. And besides, I wanted to try it all out for myself...
The team at Broadleaf Commerce is working hard to improve the framework. We've wrapped up some major eCommerce implementations in time for this year's holiday season and are looking forward to focusing on some framework items...
As the president of a small open source start-up company, I sometimes run up against the old saying, "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" (feel free to substitute your large company of choice)...
Version 1.5 of Broadleaf Commerce includes a revamped administration interface that includes advanced content targeting and promotion management features.
Version 1.5 includes new administration features based on the new BLC Open Admin architecture. This article provides a preview of a few of the key administration screens.
Version 1.5 of Broadleaf Commerce includes a revamped administration interface that includes advanced content targeting and promotion management features.
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Now includes Cybersource Payment and Tax support and utilizes Spring 3.0.3
Website offers more user-friendly online shopping experience using low cost eCommerce solution.
Latest version of the enterprise open source eCommerce solution is now available along with other documentation.
Partnership combines the solution experts with business and technical minds.
Brian Polster, CTO of Broadleaf Commerce, will speak about the development of its eCommerce solution at Dallas TechFest 2009
The Container Store selects Broadleaf Commerce for its low cost, extensibility, and leading edge framework and technologies.
A team of Java experts unites to create an enterprise open source eCommerce solution.
There's an old saying that it's bad manners to talk politics and religion. It's likely true that the same can be said for discussing which enterprise application development framework is the best - Spring or Java EE 6.
Despite the recent departure of Eran Hammer, one of the lead authors and editors, from the OAuth 2.0 specification with what would seem to be a crippling end to the very popular protocol, the OAuth 2.0 Sky is in fact NOT falling.