[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am in the final throws of writting a standalone Sales Order Entry
application written in pure Java (I gave up on XUI after pulling my hair out
for a week with the complex panel structure).
I have you thought of using Eclipse RCP? It can save you lot of glue
code and you can just write the plugin for your application. I have been
experimenting with something similar.
Thanks,
Raj
The proposed architecture
looks like this (forgive the text based graphics):
+---------------+ +-----------------+
| | | |
| Web Apps | | Sales Order |
| | | Java GUI |
+-------+-------+ | |
| +-----------------+
| | |
| | Ofbiz Framework |
Internet | |
| +-----------------+
| |
+---------------+ |
| | |
| Main Ofbiz | |
| Server | |
| | |
+------+--------+ |
| |
+---Internal Network-----+
|
+------+---------+
| |
| Postgres Server|
| |
+----------------+
This is the same as the POS app (I even reused some of the same code) except
that I did not use XUI. Each of the Sales Order Entry apps runs on desktops
configured to talk to the same Postgres server using Ofbiz services, the
same as the Ofbiz server (and POS client I think), and connected via the
internal private network to the database server. These are built all at the
same time, so any ECA rules, database structure changes, etc. are applied to
all applications. A copy is then installed on each desktop running the SOE
app.
I intend to use the same architecture for a complicated EOQ purchasing
system that I think will be too hard to do with a web app.
As mentioned, this works. I have already partially implemented and tested
it in a limited way, i.e. I can access the main server with a browser and
see the sales I have made with the SOE app.
I am worried that I might be missing something, especially when I have 11 of
the SOE apps running at the same time.
Can anyone offer any input? Is there something internal deep inside Ofbiz
where all transactions need to go through a single entity engine instead of
a dozen or so talking to the same database server? Are there
synchronization issues I might be overlooking?
I am aware that I will need to re-install the desktops if the server
structure changes in any meaningful way.
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