Whats new in Oracle Commerce 11.3

Hi All,

    Oracle's new commerce release has given answer to the queries, what is the next version of Commerce, how they are going to proceed with the UpComing Platforms, what are the Features .

Yes the Newer version of the Oracle commerce Platform has been released its 11.3 , looking in to it , oracle going to be the veteran in the commerce platform. I am one among the Followers of the oracle commerce versions regularly, this time oracle has concentrated more on the Business Standards and implemented new technologies for the faster access of their Tools and industry Standards.

Oracle Commerce is also certified to run on Oracle’s public cloud infrastructure, using Compute and database cloud service. This helps commerce owner’s additional flexibility to deploy and operated oracle commerce.

We can see the Changes with respect to this version below

Installation

As per the Oracle official docs this version going to be a Major version, which means full installation is required for this version.

Oracle Commerce Platform

This version of Oracle commerce has many new changes with respect to the Rest Framework, This latest framework allows the user simplification in  interaction with the platform .It uses the Jersey as underlying implementation .It is JAXRS 2.0  compliant Framework. It gives importance for the API Versioning, locking, transitions, caching, localization, filtering , resource version tracking ,exception mapping, relation registry, self-documentation (via Swagger) and asynchronous endpoints . It allows easily adoption for the developers who don’t know Oracle commerce.

Family resemblance between Oracle Commerce and other Oracle CX applications making it simpler to code to multiple Oracle Commerce CX suite applications.  Design Pattern Based Approach for Rest Interfaces.

It is already Coming up with the some of the Rest out of box services , which allows for faster development and Extensibility.

BCC

Purge Tool is used for the purging old versions of the CA versioned repositories. It has Changes in the Memory Efficiency, when compared to the earlier versions of the Commerce Performing export of larger catalog update with lesser amount of time and lesser memory in use.  The Queries executing the versioned repositories are improved.

Many of the people have faced delay of loading the BCC in their Machines earlier, Oracle Uses the Flex and which is being replaced by the (JET) Oracle javascript Extension Toolkit. Which makes faster for the Users to access and UI is with the Industry Standards. The BCC’s Targeting and Segmentation UI, previously implemented in JavaServer Pages (JSP), has been rewritten in Oracle JET

Oracle commerce Guided Search

MDEX

All of you have wondered , why the Oracle commerce Guided Search has Difference Versions eg MDEX 6.5.2 and other components are 11.2 and so, this has been changed in this version to 11.3 Mdex also comes with the same version in this release.

It provides the enhanced TypeAhead functionality . OLT is needed to be exists in the MDEX which has been lifted and Multiple OLT can exists in the same mdex. Restful Apis has been introduced.

Experience Manager

As like BCC, the Experience Manager UI is also redesigned with the Oracle JET , which allows for the faster access  and Industry standards. New SDK with respect to the Experience Manager which allows for the Extensibility.

Earlier Versions the cartridges were developed only with the XML files , which has been replaced with the JSON. But Still users can Import their Existing XML and Convert them to the JSON based Templates, this was introduced for Better Memory optimization. Apart from these changes some new UI changes are also brought In place.

Rule manager was removed in this version and customers who are using this have to move to the Experience Manager.   

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