Commerce sites often require the ability for a site user to compare items in the product catalog. A simple site may offer the user a single product comparison list and enable the user to add and remove products from the list, as well as compare the properties of the products in the list. A more complex site may offer the user multiple comparison lists to compare different types of items (for example, one list to compare cameras, a different list to compare televisions, and so on). ATG Commerce provides a product comparison system that enables you to meet both these simple and complex requirements.
The default implementation of the ATG Commerce product comparison system enables the user to compare any number of products and to do so using the products’ category, product, SKU, and inventory information. (Note that your application developers may have extended the system to include additional information.) Additionally, it enables the page developer to display product comparison information as a table, which the user can manipulate to change the sort criteria for the displayed information.
This chapter describes how to implement a product comparison system and includes the following sections:
Examples of Product Comparison Pages
(Includes JSP examples that display a product comparison table, add or remove a product from a product comparison list, add multiple products to a product comparison list, and remove specific entries (or items) from a product comparison list.)
