A RepositoryItem is a specialized JavaBean called a Dynamic Bean that produces basic get and set methods for the fields you define in it. Many complex items are stored by the ATG platform as RepositoryItems. When your Web services access RepositoryItems, you need to provide a serializer and/or deserializer so the RepositoryItem content can be interpreted by non-ATG systems.
The following Web Services transmit content that’s natively stored as RepositoryItems:
getProfilegetRepositoryItemperformRQLQuerygetOrderAsXML(Commerce users only)getOrdersAsXML(Commerce users only)getProductXMLById(Commerce users only)getProductXMLByDescription(Commerce users only)getProductXMLByRQL(Commerce users only)getProductSkusXML(Commerce users only)getPromotionsAsXML(Commerce users only)
The ATG platform includes several tools for working with RepositoryItems. To make a client able to serialize/deserialize RepositoryItems, you need to translate the RepositoryItem class into a language that’s native to your client. See Creating a Serializer and Deserializer for more information.
