A commerce site must supply mechanisms for customers to navigate through the site and find the products they want to buy. Core Commerce includes services that you can use to implement navigational and searching mechanisms on your sites.

This chapter includes the following sections:

This chapter covers only components specific to the Core Commerce native search capabilities, which are based on the atg.commerce.catalog.SearchFormHandler. For general information on components used in searching, see the Using Search Forms chapter in the Page Developer's Guide.