I am not clear what you mean by hook up to another system. the steps are to create a datasource in the entiyengine.xml use the webtools to generated the ofbiz entities models from the db. https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/webtools/control/view/ModelInduceFromDb
then using those write code to create a map from the old db to the ofbiz and store the data. you will have to modify the entities created some to have them work like they did in the old db. ======================== BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> BrettS sent the following on 5/3/2010 10:10 PM: > Hi BJ, > > Thanks for your prompt reply to my vague question. > > If we hook up to another system, I image we would still be installing Ofbiz > (regardless of what we actually use), just pulling ecommerce data from > somewhere else. > > Porting another database to the Ofbiz data model sounds very promising. Are > the modelling files hard to use? Any more difficult than say, Hibernate for > example? > > Thank you. > > Regards > > Brett S
