Creating custom Adobe CQ commerce providers

An Adobe CQ shopping cart component is used within an Adobe CQ online retail site and provides functionality such as:

provides an overview of selected items
links to the individual product pages
updates to quantity
removal of the item
A shopping cart component lets visitors to your Adobe CQ online retail site purchase items, as shown in the following illustration.

A shopping cart component

This development article guides you through building an Adobe CQ custom commerce provider that uses the Adobe CQ Commerce API (this API belongs to the com.adobe.cq.commerce.api package). A shopping cart component uses a commerce provider to obtain product data. Included in the custom commerce provider developed in this article is an OSGi bundle that exposes operations that the Geometrix Outdoors web application invokes. By following along with this walkthrough, you learn how to set up, develop, and configure an Adobe CQ custom commerce provider.

To read this article, click Creating custom Adobe CQ commerce providers.

Note: You can watch this related video: AEM (CQ) eCommerce Integration Framework.