There will be other responses I am sure.
First of all you need to understand the Entity Engine.
There are two basic files that make up the UI.
FTL and Widgets.
I suggest you look up datasourses and link you legacy system that way.
you can create you own Secas to sync ofbiz with your legacy system.

here is a good place to start
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Documentation+Index

Roberto Cosenza sent the following on 1/21/2008 5:12 AM:
> Hi.
> I'm new to ofbiz and i'm studying its internals in order to integrate it
> with a legacy product.
> 
> I have a few questions:
> 
> * Where is the documentation of the file format used for the screens?
> * Accessing an entity through a jdbc-source instead of the ofbiz entity
> engine
> I can replace the implementation of a service so that the finders use
> the jdbc driver but how do I, for instance, tell the "Edit agreement"
> screen to use the jdbc?
> "I guess" that the edit screen uses the tag "entity-one" to load the
> entity to be edited in the form, avoiding the need of a call to
> "loadAgreement" service. How do i replace the implementation of that
> tag/call?
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> /Roberto
> 
> 
> 

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