The Oracle Commerce Platform permits .NET clients to access Nucleus methods by exposing them as Web Services. There are many Web Services included with the Oracle Commerce Platform, as are tools for creating custom Web Services. For a list of Oracle Commerce Platform Web Services, see Web Services. .NET clients are able to contact those Web Services through a carefully constructed call that’s built in .NET, translated into XML wrapped in SOAP, transmitted to the Oracle Commerce Platform, and routed to the Nucleus method itself. Other Oracle Commerce Platform resources, such as JMS messages and RepositoryItems can also be exposed as Web Services.

This section describes how to call Web Services from a .NET client. Rather than provide a broad discussion on how to use .NET, this section describes Oracle Commerce Platform-specific features and processes that you need to be familiar with. Please see your .NET documentation for comprehensive instructions.

To access a Web Service, you need to be familiar with the following topics: