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Integrate between the Management Center client and service module
The Management Center Web application mediates requests made between the Management Center client and the WebSphere Commerce services by transforming requests and responses.
The Management Center sends Uniform Resource Locator (URL) requests and receives XML-formatted Management Center objects, whereas the WebSphere Commerce services send and receive BOD messages. The Management Center Web application mediates messages between the Management Center and WebSphere Commerce. Requests sent from the Management Center are transformed into the appropriate BOD requests of the WebSphere Commerce service and the responses of those BOD requests are transformed into the XML representation that the Management Center understands. The steps required to transform messages differs based on the type of message.
This integration is performed in the next two lessons.