This section provides information about and instructions for using the Oracle ATG Web Commerce platform Representational State Transfer (REST) Web Services. See basic information about using the REST Web Services interface in Using REST Web Services.

The REST Web Services provide access to Nucleus components. Nucleus components are server-side JavaBeans and servlets that perform the back-end functionality of a Web application—for example, enabling database connectivity, logging, scheduling, and handling HTTP requests. The Oracle ATG Web Commerce platform REST Web Services expose methods that get component data and get and set component property values. You cannot use the Oracle ATG Web Commerce platform REST Web Services to delete components.

See instructions for specific operations in the following sections.

Note: The Oracle ATG Web Commerce platform REST Web Services are not related to the SOAP Web Services described previously in this guide. The REST and SOAP modules do not share any functionality. The two technologies were developed independently and are quite different in their implementations.