If you are an ATG Portal user, you can use gears in the portal pages of your commerce site to provide customers with a personalized gateway to their order information. For example, the Order Status gear provides customers with direct access to their five most recently placed orders, with access to all orders just one click away.

This chapter provides information on the portal gears (sometimes referred to as “portlets”) that are provided with Oracle ATG Web Commerce. It includes the following sections:

The chapter assumes that you are familiar with the gear development and administration concepts covered in the ATG Portal Development Guide and the ATG Portal Administration Guide.

Note: The Oracle ATG Web Commerce portal gears are packaged into individual modules that include Web applications you need to deploy on your application server.