Getting Started with Hybris.

It was Quite Difficult to get my hands on the Hybris software and finally the documentation was lacking so very much  and I could hardly find any help available .googling..

Registering on the Hybris site is a big pain.  You have to wait months until  receive an approval e-Mail. I guess this is to keep most people out.
So you will have to either get it from a friend , who already has it , or wait it out ..

Once you have downloaded the  hybris-commerce-suite  .
Follow the steps mentioned in the wiki.
The extracted folder will have something like below. 



Navigate to <Directory of installation> :\..\hybris\bin\platform  , and run setantenv.bat  .
Ignore any warnings.

Run the ant build .   cmd -> ant clean all . ( This takes a bit of time . )

Now you can start the Hybris Server. 

Run the Hybris Server.  hybrisserver.bat . 

Error : 
Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine 



In case you end up with this error.
Navigate to <directory>:\..\hybris\bin\platform\tomcat\conf   and update the 

xMx -  maximum size of the memory allocation pool and 
XX:MaxPermSize  - initial size that will be allocated during startup of the JVM

 Here is what I have configured. 

wrapper.java.additional.1=-Xmx1G
wrapper.java.additional.2=-XX:MaxPermSize=512M  

Hope this helps. 

Once the Server is Up . 


Server Admin Console ( Hybris Admin Console )  : http://localhost:9001/ 

Id/ Pass : admin/nimda . 

CMS Manager : cmsmanager/1234   - http://localhost:9001/cmscockpit/login.zul


 There you go on with checking out Hybris. 

Features and Options Seems very less compared to Websphere Commerce , but then again this is still evolving.