Work with WebSphere Commerce services

Working with WebSphere Commerce services involves developing client libraries, new commands, and business logic. The Design Pattern Toolkit (DPTK) is provided and documented to assist you with these tasks.

Read more about WebSphere Commerce services in the following topics:

• Install the Design Pattern Toolkit and the ComponentProjects design pattern
  

• Set up the development environment for creating WebSphere Commerce services
  

• Use a client library
  

• Create the client library
  

• Extending the client library
  

• Deploying the client library
  

• Testing a WebSphere Commerce service
  

• Externalizing WebSphere Commerce services
  

• Client library exceptions
  

• WebSphere Commerce extended XPath notation
  WebSphere Commerce uses an extended XPath notation as the query language to identify the parts of the logical model you want to query. XPath is an industry standard language for addressing parts of an XML document, and the WebSphere Commerce extended XPath notation has some extensions to this standard.