The Oracle Commerce Platform provides an open, server-side environment for building and deploying dynamic, personalized applications for the web and other communication channels, such as email and wireless devices. Oracle Commerce Platform applications implement a component development model based on JavaBeans and JSPs. Developers assemble applications out of component beans (based on standard Oracle Commerce Platform classes or custom Java classes) by linking them together through configuration files in Nucleus, the Oracle Commerce Platform’s open object framework. Page designers build the front-end interface for the application out of JSPs that use the Oracle Commerce Platform’s DSP tag library. The DSP tag library makes it possible to embed Nucleus components in JSPs, and use those components for rendering dynamic content.
Each chapter in this manual focuses on a fundamental aspect of Oracle Commerce Platform application architecture. For specific information about applications such as Core Commerce or Oracle Commerce Merchandising, see their online product documentation.
