you can also assign a datasource in the entityengine.xml make sure not to have the table update on, then use the webtools to create entities for you current DB. https://demo.ofbiz.org/webtools/control/view/ModelInduceFromDb or http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/FAQ+-+Tips+-+Tricks+-+Cookbook+-+HowTo#FAQ-Tips-Tricks-Cookbook-HowTo-ExternalDatabase BTW the FAQ are a good place to find things like this here are some other options. http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Handling+of+External+data John Hays sent the following on 5/1/2009 11:29 AM: > I have 100s of thousands of data items to put into the ofbiz schema > (MySQL to MySQL) -- I have been playing with the XML import under > webtools by writing the customer -> party data out to XML. With the > size of the datasets, this isn't very practical. Is there documentation > on how to do this with an API? > > > John D. Hays > > > > > www.mavericklabel.com > 120 West Dayton Street > Edmonds, WA 98020-4180 > >
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