Outbound services

WebSphere Commerce provides the capability for you to enable outbound web services to send information and messages that are generated from WebSphere Commerce.

• Outbound messaging system
  The WebSphere Commerce messaging system allows us to manage all aspects of defining and sending messages generated within WebSphere Commerce. It allows us 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.

• Sending services
  The following methods are provided with the outbound messaging system sending services:

• Creating an outbound message
  In addition to the supported XML and WebSphere Commerce outbound messages, we can add support for new outbound messages. To add a new outbound message, we must 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, a sample adapter is provided that we can use as a base for developing a JCA resource adapter.