PCUI and OCI (Open Catalog Interface)

Hi,
we want to integrate a external catalog into the PCUI application qutation. The goal is to take over the shopping basket of the catalog into a Quotation. The data which should be taken over are products out of the external product catalog. Therefore the open catalog interface (OCI) should be used. The external catalog sends the shopping basket selected by the user via a HTTP Post to a so called Hook-URL which is provided by the calling application (PCUI). The calling application (PCUI) will retrieve this POST and take over the data send by the HTTP Post.
My question is now if something like that is possible with PCUI framework?
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Mario

Thanks for the quick and succinct reply.

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