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Storefront Server

Storefront Server

The Storefront server uses the following technologies:

  • CSS - Cascading Style Sheets provide formatting and positioning for elements across all HTML pages
  • Javascript - Javascript is used to create rich user interfaces in the browser
  • Velocity - A template processing technology that embeds information from Java objects within HTML pages
  • Spring MVC - A web framework used to separate Velocity templates in the view layer from the underlying domain model and services
  • DWR - An AJAX remoting framework
  • In addition, the Storefront uses services provided by the Core component of Elastic Path Commerce.