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Outbound services
- Outbound messaging system
The WebSphere Commerce messaging system allows you to manage all aspects of defining and sending messages generated within WebSphere Commerce. It allows you to control the manner in which administrators, customers, back-end and fulfillment center systems are notified of various events, such as customer orders or system errors.
- Send services
The following methods are provided with the outbound messaging system sending services:
- Create an outbound message
In addition to the supported XML and WebSphere Commerce outbound messages, you can add support for new outbound messages. To add a new outbound message, write a new controller command to build the content of the new outbound message and send the message to the back-end system using the send services of the outbound messaging system.
- Sample adapter
To use a transport that is not provided with WebSphere Commerce, such as an SMS adapter, a sample adapter is provided that you can use as a base for developing a JCA resource adapter.