Mapping between the Management Center client and WebSphere Commerce nouns

The Management Center sends URL requests and receives XML-formatted Management Center objects, while the WebSphere Commerce services send and receive BOD messages. The Management Center Web application mediates messages between the Management Center and WebSphere Commerce. Requests made 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.

This diagram illustrates a high-level overview of the Management Center framework, along with the types of requests and responses that are passed between the Management Center and WebSphere Commerce:

The steps that are required to transform messages differs based on the type of message.