Commerce Server 2009 Architecture

The following figure illustrates the Commerce Server 2009 Core Systems.

1. Customers uses their browser to access a Web Application that uses Commerce Server 2009 Core Systems. Such Web Applications typically involves Browsing Products, Add Products in Shopping Cart and finally acquiring Products by completing the Checkout process.
2. Business users use various Smart Client Applications provided with Commerce Server 2009 to manage the data maintained within the various Commerce Server 2009 Core Systems.
3. Each Commerce Server 2009 Core System has an extensive .Net API that a developer can use to access the functionality the system provides.
4. Each Commerce Server Core System has an adapter associated with it in order to integrate Commerce Server 2009 with BizTalk Server 2006.
5. IT professionals can use Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to monitor both events logged by various Commerce Server 2009 Core Systems and to track performance using the counters maintained by those systems.
6. Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 is one of the recommended ways to track performance using the counters maintained by Commerce Server 2009 Core Systems.
7. Commerce Server 2009 provides Commerce Server Manager that can be used by an IT professional to maintain a wide variety of Commerce Server 2009 Core Systems configuration information.
8. Commerce Server Staging (CSS) is a feature that can be used to reliably move Web Application Assets in and across different environments.
9. Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 Core Systems provides Data Warehousing and Analytics capabilities.
10. The Commerce Server 2009 Core Systems Administration database is a SQL Server database.

In Part 3 we will see how we can develop with Commerce Server 2009 Core Systems.