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 can:

  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:

Loader utilities

This package consists primarily of utilities for preparing and loading data into a WebSphere Commerce database. You can use the Loader utilities to load large amounts of data and to update data in your WebSphere Commerce database.

The Loader utilities allow you to do the following:

Loader administrative tools

The loader package also includes the following two tools with a user interface to assist in the administration of its functions:

Text Transformation tool
The Text Transformation tool helps the administrator to prepare the information needed to process a transformation of data between a character-delimited variable format and an XML data format. You can also use the Transform utility to transform between character-delimited and XML format.
XSL Editor
The XML Transformer uses XSL to define the rules for transforming an XML file into another XML file. The mapping function in the XSL Editor gives the administrator a visual interface with which to establish the association from an element in a source document type definition (DTD) to an element in a target DTD.

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