Hybris Updating and It's Options

Hybris commerce suite updating and it's options:

If you want to Update Hybris commerce suite from hybris Administration Console.When ever you choose Platform tab and select Update option defaults hybris Administration Console provides some available options in the form of checkboxes they are:

1.Update running system
2.Clear the hmc configuration form the database
3.Create essential data
4.Localize types

And Project Data

The above options are shown like this in hybris Administration Console within Update page.

 Update Running System:

 If you check "Update running system" box and after click on Update button  whatever the recently modified type related data will be updated  it means the system update rebuilds all type definitions from items.xml files.

Clear the hMC Configuration from the Database:

If you check "Clear the hmc Configuration from the database" box  and after click on Update button whatever the configuration maintained dynamically from the hmc that will be deleted and rebuild using cache memory.And name says that "Clear the hMC Configuration from the Database" it means uploads an empty hMC configuration into the database

Create Essential Data:

Essential data is creates the default catalog,restrictions, and basics cronjobs automatically loaded after creation of tenant. It is change between extensions.When ever you choose "Essential data" checkbox the corresponding impex files information is updated.

Localize Types:

Whenever you check the "Localize types" box and after click on Update button  the system localizes the type system it means corresponding localization data(i.e languages) is updated.

Project Data:

A list of all extensions available for the hybris Commerce Suite is provided in the Project Data section on both the Initialization and the Update pages.

hybris commerce directory structure?

Hybris Commerce suite directory structure:

The directory structure of hybris Commerce has binary files stored under /bin directory. All extensions developed by hybris are divided in specific directories under the /bin directory to distinguish between the different kinds of extensions that hybris provides.

The following shows the directory structure of release 5.7:

/hybris/bin
/custom

/ext-accelerator

/ext-addon

/ext-atdd

/ext-atddtests

/ext-backoffice

/ext-channel

/ext-cockpit

/ext-commerce

/ext-content

/ext-data

/ext-deprecated
/ext-eventtracking 

/ext-integration

/ext-platform-optional

/ext-print

/ext-supportability

/ext-template
/platform

Apart from this it contains other files such as:

1.   Configuration files stored in the config folder

2.   Data files stored in the data folder

3.   Log files stored in the log folder

4.   Temporary files stored in the temp folder.

Note: When you extract Hybris Commerce Suite only we are going to get /bin folder, other folders will be created when you set Ant environment and perform ant all target all the folders will be created.

Here is the brief description about the folders present in hybris directory release 5.7:

/bin

It contains the hybris Platform directories, the template directory, and the hybris extensions directory.

It may also contain the directory for partner extensions or custom extensions made by customers

for their own use.

/bin/custom

This directory is created during the process of creating the custom extensions. It should contain our 

own project extensions.

/bin/ext-Accelerator   

This directory contains acceleratorcms,acceleratorfacades,acceleratorservices,

Acceleratorstorefrontcommons, alipay, b2bacceleratorservices, b2bpunchout,

chinaacceleratorfacades, chinaacceleratorservices, savedorderforms, timedaccesspromotionsfacades, timedaccesspromotionsservices, timedaccesspromotionsserviceshmc extensions.

/bin/ext-addon            

This directory contains addon-related extensions.

/bin/ext-atdd              

This directory contains the ATDD engine.

/bin/ext-atddtests       

This directory contains the ATDD tests for particular modules.

/bin/ext-backoffice     

This directory contains, alipaymentbackoffice, b2bcommercebackoffice,

backoffice, basecommercebackoffice, chinaacceleratorbackoffice,

commercesearchbackoffice, commerceservicesbackoffice,

ordermanagementbackoffice, promotionsbackoffice,

solrfacetsearchbackoffice, timedaccesspromotionsbackoffice,

voucherbackoffice, warehousingbackoffice, xyformsbackoffice,

ybackoffice extensions.

/bin/ext-channel         

This directory contains cscockpit, instore, mobileoptionals, mobileservices extensions.

/bin/ext-cockpit         

This directory contains the following cockpit extensions: admincockpit, cockpit, mcc,

reportcockpit, ycockpit.

/bin/ext-commerce     

This directory contains commerce-related extensions.

/bin/ext-content         

This directory contains  bmecat, bmecathmc, classificationsystems,

classificationsystemshmc, cms2, cms2lib, cmscockpit, importcockpit,

liveeditaddon, productcockpit, productcockpitsampledata

/bin/ext-data               

This directory contains sample data extensions

/bin/ext-deprecated             

This directory contains extensions which are to be deprecated along with the next release

/bin/ext-eventtracking        

This directory contains eventtrackingmodel, eventtrackingpublisher,

eventtrackingservices

/bin/ext-incubator               

This directory contains deltadetection, y2ysync, y2ysync-datahub-ext,

y2ysyncdemoelectronics, y2ysynchmc, yaasconnect

/bin/ext-integration             

This directory contains extensions used for integration of the hybris Commerce Suite with SAP 

systems

/bin/ext-platform-backoffice         

This directory contains  mediaconversionbackoffice and platformbackoffice

/bin/ext-platform-optional  

This directory contains optional platform extensions

/bin/ext-print                       

This directory contains print, printcockpit and printhmc extensions

/bin/ext-supportability        

This directory contains hybrisdatasupplier, hybrisrootcauseanalysis and

hybristransportandchange extensions.

/bin/ext-template                 

This directory contains all extgen templates.

/bin/platform                        

This directory contains the actual Platform functionalities. It includes core extensions, the build

framework, custom extension templates in /extgen, and the application server directories.

Note:  Every Hybris commerce /bin directory looks same but no. of

Extensions differ from release version to version like 4.8, 5.0, 5.4 etc.

/config                                   

The directory contains our custom configuration files for the hybris Commerce Suite, such as:

local.properties,  localextensions.xml and hybrislicence.jar. This directory also

contains the files for the customization mechanism of the hybris Commerce Suite

/data                                      

This directory contains runtime data, such as: Media files, such as product pictures.        

LuceneSearch indexes ,HSQLDB files.

/log                                        

This directory contains log files from the hybris Server, JDBC logging, and so on

/temp        

This directory contains temporary files.

hybris Commerce Suite Update

The hybris Commerce Suite Update:

1. The hybris Administration Console  is the root web page in the hybris Commerce Suite.You access it by opening appropriate URL on specific port, for example http://localhost:9001.

2. Open the hybris administration console.

3.At the beginning you are prompted to enter a user name and a password to access the hybris Administration Console. By default, you can use the admin user account and the nimda password.

4.Go to the Platform tab and select Update option

4. The Update page in hac displays like below.

5.Click the Update.If you Click on the Lock button disables the functionality of the Initialization and Update pages.
                                               (OR)
Open the command prompt in platform location like D:\hybris\bin\platform. Run as setantenv.bat i.e press enter Run as “ant updatesystem ”.or “ant updatesystem –Dtenant=$ttenantname”.Here tenantname is your tenantname by default tenantname is uses as mastertant.

After Clicking the Update button The Update page allows you to update the hybris Commerce Suite, but without removing available data.

So that no loss of data.It means update doesn’t drop any tables and columns from database schema.

In the process of updating existing tables are updated and newly defined types in items.xml are also created

hybris Initialization

        The hybris Commerce Suite Initialization :

        

1. Open the hybris administration console http://localhost:9001

2.Go to the Platform tab and select Initialization option

3.The Initialization page now displays.

 

Initialize the System:

     

4.Click the Initialize.If you Click on the Lock button disables the functionality of the Initialization and Update pages.

              

                                     (OR)

Open the command prompt in platform location like D:\hybris\bin\platform. Run as setantenv.bat i.e press enter Run as “ant initialize”.or “ant initialize –Dtentant=$tenantname”

Click the Initialize button then following steps are performed:

Initialization drops existing type definitions from the database,The entire type system is created from scratch. 

 Suspend all running cron jobs and Clear chache information.

 By using DROP TABLE statement removes all tables from the database schema.So that 

 this removes all data stored in the database schema and also hybris Commerce Suite data,  

After click on initialize existing data model definition will be lost.

During an initialization, type system definitions are created to match the type system definition in the items.xml

             Based on items.xml file new tables with initial dataset are created.

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