Yes, thats good to have a separate component to handle xml over http, REST in your case.
But I am not getting how are forming the url's, because in REST, urls represents a objects. For example : http://ofbiz/partymgr/party/1234 - will represent a party whose id is 1234 http://ofbiz/partymgr/party/1234/addrress/5678 - will represent the address whose id is 5678 of party 1234 I guess its difficult to have this sort of thing considering the number of functionality already build in ofbiz. or are you using REST but not following the each url represents an object. Thanks, Abdullah On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Christopher Snow < [email protected]> wrote: > Sorry - just seen this. > The approach we currently use is having a dedicated web app in ofbiz which > is used to expose ofbiz services using REST (the organisation favors REST) . > We are using the jersey rest libraries. > > I believe our flex guy is using HTTPService to communicate with rest. > > Cheers, > > chris > > > Abdullah Shaikh wrote: > >> Hi Chris, >> >> I don't want to use xml-rpc but instead would like to use Flex >> HTTPService, >> I guess xml-rpc would work with HTTPService. >> >> Basic idea is to create a xml over http communication between ofbiz & any >> other RIA, so that we can make ofbiz communicated with flex, gwt etc. >> >> I will have a look at the link provided. >> >> Thanks, >> Abdullah >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Christopher Snow < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi Abdullah, >>> >>> On my current project, we initially used xml-rpc using a flex xmlrpc >>> library sent to me by Andrew Zeneski. >>> >>> We had tried using the new ofbiz soap implementation, but it didn't play >>> nicely with flex. >>> >>> Have a look at XMLRPC in the faq: >>> >>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/FAQ+-+Tips+-+Tricks+-+Cookbook+-+HowTo >>> >>> If you want a more optimised communication between flex and ofbiz, you >>> can >>> try BlazeDS: >>> >>> >>> >>> http://langhua.org/portal/portal/default/OFBiz/OFBizBlazeDSModulePortletWindow?windowstate=maximized >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Abdullah Shaikh wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I want to develop a flex application which will interact with ofbiz >>>> using >>>> xml. >>>> >>>> I just had a cursory view of xmlrpcclient & xmlserializer, has anybody >>>> done >>>> this ? what will be the best way to have ofbiz output xml ? >>>> >>>> I have seen that GenericValue can be easily converted to xml form. >>>> >>>> The request can be in xml form or can be a normal http request, but the >>>> response from ofbiz should be in xml form, for example something like >>>> this, >>>> >>>> <Orders> >>>> <Order id="1" status="Approved"/> - all the required fields >>>> <Order id="2" status="Created"/> >>>> </Orders> >>>> >>>> <Parties> >>>> <Party firstname="abc" lastname="xyz"> - all the required fields >>>> </Parties> >>>> >>>> This way we can have a flex application communicate with ofbiz using xml >>>> over http, I think flex don't understand json, so we need to go the xml >>>> way >>>> and also the benefits of xml is that with this approach ofbiz can >>>> interact >>>> with any kind of RIA technology. >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Abdullah >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
