The Oracle ATG Web Commerce platform provides infrastructure and tools for accessing Oracle ATG Web Commerce repositories with Web services. The ATG Web Services 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 Oracle ATG Web Commerce xml2repository feature, described in the Repository to XML Data Binding section of the ATG Platform Programming Guide.

This chapter describes three generalized Web services you can use to provide access to Oracle ATG Web Commerce repositories:

These Web services are packaged in the <ATG10dir>/DAS/WebServices directory. For information about how to deploy these and other Web services, see the ATG Platform Programming 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.

Also to these repository Web services, Oracle ATG Web Commerce Personalization and Oracle ATG Web Commerce contain several Web services that provide access to specific Oracle ATG Web Commerce repositories and repository item types. A complete list of the Web services included in the Oracle ATG Web Commerce platform can be found in the ATG Web Services Guide.