Core Engine of Elastic Path Commerce

Core Engine is the heart of Elastic Path Commerce. It is a set of libraries that contain classes shared across the different components of the application. These classes are organized into the following categories, or layers:

• Domain layer
• Service layer
• Data access layer

The libraries are as follows:

• ep-base

  Base classes required by all projects.

• ep-cache

  Cache wrapper and factory related classes

• ep-core

  Core eCommerce services and data structures.

• ep-core-caching

  Cache lookup classes for category, product characteristics, products and product SKUs.

• ep-persistence-openjpa

  OpenJPA specific implementation of Persistence classes.

• ep-persistence-api

  Persistence API classes.

• ep-settings

  Settings related domain and service classes.

• openjpa-osgi-wrapper

  Main and first point for Ehcache configuration. Supports also external Ehcache configuration