Representational State Transfer (REST) is based on the same architectural pattern as the Web. It is modeled around a large number of resources that link amongst each other. Each resource can be globally identified by its URI. With Oracle Commerce Platform, the resources that are being exposed by the REST web services are server-side Nucleus components. It is important to keep in mind, however, that Oracle Commerce REST differs from traditional REST as Oracle Commerce REST is not truly stateless and cannot be used to delete a Nucleus component.

Client applications can leverage Oracle Commerce REST to interact with multiple types of Nucleus components in a variety of ways. This includes invoking methods on standard Nucleus components, invoking form handlers or performing create, read, update, and delete operations against the application’s repositories.