The ATG platform provides infrastructure and tools for accessing ATG repositories with Web services. The Creating Repository Web Services chapter in the Web Services and Integration Framework Guide describes how to create a Web service that exposes a particular repository item descriptor, or an individual repository item property. Repository items can be passed via a Web service in the form of an XML file created with the ATG xml2repository feature, described in the Repository to XML Data Binding chapter of the Web Services and Integration Framework Guide.
This chapter describes three generalized Web services you can use to provide access to ATG repositories:
These Web services are packaged in the <ATG2007.3dir>/DAS/WebServices directory. For information about how to deploy these and other Web services, see the Web Services and Integration Framework Guide.
Note that the descriptions of these Web services include URLs that begin http://hostname:port where hostname machine running your application server and port is the port your application server uses to listen for HTTP requests. To find the default port, see the ATG Installation and Configuration Guide.
In addition to these repository Web services, ATG Personalization and ATG Commerce contain several Web services that provide access to specific ATG repositories and repository item types. A complete list of the Web services included in the ATG platform can be found in the Web Services and Integration Framework Guide.
