You can use the atg.userprofiling.ViewItemEventSender servlet bean to send JMS messages when the customer views items in the catalog. ViewItemEventSender sends a JMS object message of class atg.userprofiling.dms.ViewItemMessage. The ViewItemMessage object identifies the repository item being viewed and the item’s location. These messages can be used to trigger actions. For example, a message listener could be configured to store information in the customer’s profile about the products viewed.

The ViewItemEventSender takes a single input parameter called eventobject that specifies the item viewed. There are no output parameters or open parameters.

Oracle ATG Web Commerce includes two ViewItemEventSender components in /atg/commerce/catalog: ProductBrowsed and CategoryBrowsed. Depending on which one you use, the eventobject passed in is either the product or category repository item.

The following example shows a portion of a JSP that uses the ProductBrowsed component to send a message when a product is viewed. The product’s repository ID is passed to this page (via the itemId parameter) from the page that links to it:

<dsp:droplet name="/atg/commerce/catalog/ProductLookup">
<dsp:param param="itemId" name="id"/>

<dsp:oparam name="output">
  <dsp:droplet name="/atg/commerce/catalog/ProductBrowsed">
    <dsp:param param="element" name="eventobject"/>
  </dsp:droplet>
</dsp:oparam>
</dsp:droplet>