The ATG Business Commerce Reference Application demonstrates features and functionality of Oracle ATG Web Commerce that are primarily useful for B2B sites.
For the ATG Business Commerce Reference Application, we built a personalized business commerce site for a fictional company named Motorprise. We used the rich functionality of Commerce to provide a foundation and a guide to help you quickly and easily create your own personalized, innovative, commerce-intensive Web sites.
Motorprise is made up of pre-configured Java components and page templates that provide the core functionality you need to quickly implement a broad range of merchandising and order processing activities typical of an online-commerce site. We used the basic functionality available in Commerce and extended it in places to implement specific features, including invoice/purchase order payment method, approvals, cost centers, and recurring and scheduled requisitions.
In this guide, we have included code samples to help you understand the functionality and use it in your own projects by making small customizations. This guide also describes any additions or extensions made to the core Commerce functionality. The commerce areas of the site are built in a modular fashion, with a minimum of interdependencies, so that the site can be broken apart and re-implemented in pieces.
You will want to evaluate your business goals and use the product features that are appropriate for your strategy. The processes and functionality that this manual discusses can be customized to fit the specific needs of your Web application. Page developers, programmers, and business users should use this manual to see the features available to them and then make decisions about the most useful ways that they can customize these features for their site.
Before exploring Motorprise, you should familiarize yourself with the concepts explained in the ATG Commerce Programming Guide and ATG Commerce Guide to Setting Up a Store.
The rest of this chapter provides you with the basic information you need to understand and get started with the Motorprise site.
