Thanks BJ, Bilgin,
I will put it in FAQ, except if someone takes the time to dot it...
Jacques
From: "Bilgin Ibryam" <[email protected]>
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
