The purchase process can be broken down into the following subsystems:

  • Base Commerce Classes and Interfaces
    The base commerce interface implementations hold and manage other commerce interface implementations. For example, an Order interface implementation contains implementations of CommerceItem, ShippingGroup, PaymentGroup, and Relationship. The interfaces define a mechanism for accessing the data stored in an object in a manner that frees it from the underlying implementation. The base commerce interfaces are Order, CommerceItem, ShippingGroup, PaymentGroup, and Relationship.

  • Address Classes
    While not commerce-specific objects, the Address and ContactInfo classes play important roles in the purchase process.

  • Business Layer Classes
    The business layer classes hold the business logic for tasks like adding an item to an order, retrieving an order, adding shipping methods, and adding payment methods. These classes use the base commerce classes and the base commerce interfaces.

  • Pipelines
    The purchase process pipelines execute a series of operations when called by the business layer classes.

  • Order Repository
    The Order Repository is the layer between ATG Commerce and the database server.

 
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