Oracle Endeca Commerce provides two methods for promoting content from the Endeca Workbench to the production environment: a direct method, in which data is transferred via remote calls, and a file-based method, in which data is published to the file system and retrieved from there.

By default, the ATG-Endeca integration uses the direct method of content promotion. This chapter discusses how to modify the configuration to support file-based content promotion. The default Endeca deployment template assumes the use of file-based content promotion, so if you are using that deployment template, you should configure file-based content promotion as described in this chapter. Note, however, that the deployment template used for Commerce Reference Store assumes the use of the direct method.

For more information about the content promotion methods and how to determine which method to use, see the Oracle Endeca Commerce Administrator.