If you’ve ever built diagrams for SAP Commerce projects, you probably know the feeling. You start out with good intentions — trying to explain how everything fits together.Then you open your favorite diagramming tool… and lose the next hour lining up boxes, fixing arrows, and adjusting text so it doesn’t spill off the page. That was me too. All I wanted was a clean, simple diagram that told the story. But I’d spend more time fixing the layout than thinking through the architecture. At one point I thought: “Why can’t I just explain what I want in plain English / …
Month: March 2025
Visualizing SAP Commerce Architecture with PlantUML (Free Editor Included)
I know it’s been a while since the last article. I haven’t forgotten the importance of sharing what I learn. So, I’m sharing a useful tool that I use every day: PlantUML. If you’re not already using PlantUML to document your SAP Commerce projects, you’re missing out on one of the easiest wins in your dev workflow. It’s a no-BS tool for turning simple text into diagrams you can commit, version, and share without leaving your IDE. If you want to skip the setup and dive right in, head over to diagrams.commercesense.io—a clean, ad-free PlantUML editor I helped build specifically for …