For reference: After evaluating few ETL tools - Pentaho Kettle, Jitterbit, Talend, we found out that the most easier way to integrate data in Ofbiz is using Talend.
The process: - Connect Talend to the external DB - For each row, prepare the data (doing transformations, joins with other tables, call web services to get ISO codes) - Call an ofbiz service to create the data in Ofbiz DB (like create product) Ofbiz services can be called as web service (real pain with the way parameters are encoded in maps) or through XML-RPC The process is really easy, since Talend can connect to many data sources, and importing the data using Ofbiz services ensure that the data is properly created. Bilgin On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:07 PM, BJ Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > your welcome > in addition if you got the DB route you can write scripts to map ofbiz to > the other db and use SECAS. > so if say a createcustomers service is run you can have your SECA call your > script and load the other DB. > from you legacy db you can have scheduled services that pull from it to > ofbiz. > > Chatree Srichart sent the following on 7/12/2010 1:05 PM: > > Hi, BJ Freeman >> Thanks for your quick answer. >> >> Regards, >> Chatree Srichart >> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:53 AM, BJ Freeman<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> it depends on the data form you using. >>> for files >>> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Handling+of+External+data >>> >>> if you have a db you can connect to ofbiz then you can >>> create the entities and write minilang scripts to pull from the old one, >>> map then store in ofbiz. >>> >>> https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/webtools/control/view/ModelInduceFromDb >>> your need to define a datasource in the entityengine.xml for your db, to >>> use this tool. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Chatree Srichart sent the following on 7/12/2010 12:19 PM: >>> >>> Hi community, >>> >>>> >>>> Now I'm working on OFBiz and need to integrate it to several systems. I >>>> have >>>> to get data from several sources to store in OFBiz data model. >>>> I need to use ETL tool for help this process but I don't know what is a >>>> ETL >>>> tool that OFBiz use. >>>> >>>> Can anyone tell me what is a ETL tool in OFBiz? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Chatree Srichart >>>> >>>> >>>> >>
