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

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

These Web services are packaged in the <ATG11dir>/DAS/WebServices directory. For information about how to deploy these and other Web services, see the Platform Programming Guide.

Note that the descriptions of these Web services include URLs that begin http://hostname:port where hostname is the 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 Platform Installation and Configuration Guide.

In addition to these repository Web services, there are several Web services included in the Personalization module and Core Commerce that provide access to specific repositories and repository item types. A complete list of the Web services included in the Oracle Commerce Platform can be found in the Web Services Guide.