Overview of the Loader package

The WebSphere Commerce Loader package provides a generic toolkit that provides various functions that can be strung together in the required sequence to solve your particular commerce data management problems. It is flexible enough to handle customizations that are made to the WebSphere Commerce schema.

Loader package provides the ability to aggregate information from multiple sources into a consolidated WebSphere Commerce system and to remap all that diverse data into a standard commerce data definition format using XML files as the standard means of managing information.

Loader package provides the means for you to do the following:

  1. Import data from multiple input sources in the form of ASCII and XML files into WebSphere Commerce.
  2. Transform data from ASCII to XML format and back again.
  3. Remap data from one XML format to another.
  4. Aggregate data from multiple input streams into one aggregated database.

Loader package includes the following: