Mapping between Management Center and HCL Commerce nouns
The Management Center web application mediates requests that are made between the Management Center client and the HCL Commerce services by transforming requests and responses.
About this task
The Management Center sends URL requests and receives XML-formatted Management Center objects, while the HCL Commerce services send and receive BOD messages. The Management Center Web application mediates messages between the Management Center and HCL Commerce. Requests made from the Management Center are transformed into the appropriate BOD requests of the HCL Commerce service and the responses of those BOD requests are transformed into the XML representation that the Management Center understands.
The steps that are required to transform messages differs based on the type of message.