Broadleaf Commerce

Broadleaf Commerce is an e-commerce framework written in Java and built on the Spring Framework. It includes an administrative application built with Spring MVC, where admin users hold roles and permissions, and it sends email through Thymeleaf templates. The running-locally guide starts from a downloaded Community Edition starter project built with Maven. The project’s API module exposes REST endpoints, and the databases the guide lists are MySQL, Postgres, Oracle and SQL Server. The README names Solr for search and Quartz for scheduled tasks. Admin users can authenticate against LDAP, and locales are resolved by a default Locale Resolver. Broadleaf Commerce, LLC, based in Plano, Texas, maintains the project, and also runs Broadleaf Cloud, a fully managed platform.

Worth knowing

The README states that the Community Edition is “available to companies with under $5M in revenue” and is not an Apache 2 open source product. It is source-available under the Fair Use License 1.0, and uses that require payment fall under the Broadleaf End User License Agreement. The Enterprise Edition and the Microservices Edition are source-available under a commercial license, and the Microservices Edition offers headless commerce APIs. Multi-tenant support is part of the Enterprise Edition.