Andrew (Ballantine), I have just been discussing a similar scenario with a client this morning.
Generally, if you don't want to intrude too much on the custom app it's a good idea to just send data back and forth as xml using https/soap/rmi or whatever and write a little customisation on the OfBiz side to do the rest for you. Assuming the custom app uses a normal JDBC accessible DB, you can even write something to share the data without the need to modify the custom app. - Andrew (Sykes) On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 14:09 +0000, Andrew Ballantine wrote: > Hi, > > One of the things we shall need to do when adopting OFBiz is to be able to > share data from other applications with OFBiz. Why would we want to do that? > > The client has a custom application for handling customer calls and the > necessary follow-up to getting an order. In doing this the application > collects the customer's details which will be needed by by the order > processing and stock control we hope to use in OFbiz. Although we may > transfer this custom application to OFBiz in the future, it works fine for > now and we will have enough to do on the order processing and stock control. > > I realise that I can alter the application to write the customer details to > the DBMS, but am concerned that OFBiz might have some problems if it has > been written assuming it has exclusive access to the database. > Having separate customer databases is not considered an option. > > Any input will be gratefully received. > Kind regards, > > Andrew Ballantine. > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/622 - Release Date: 10/01/2007 > 14:52 > > > ***************************************************************** > This email has been checked by the altohiway Mailcontroller Service > ***************************************************************** -- Kind Regards Andrew Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sykes Development Ltd http://www.sykesdevelopment.com
