if your only reason to use ofbiz is the data structure, I suggest you
get the 3 volumes of the Data module books, ofbiz is based on and use
the CD data included to create a standard data sql to build your
database. you will find better ROI.
The framework is meant more for those that use entities and the ease of
maintainence for dealing with the persistence layer and the UI layer.
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Grant Edwards sent the following on 1/17/2011 2:46 AM:
Hi,
Ofbiz : a Commons Platform
My client has a number of different applications each storing and
maintaining data similar to facilities, parties, contact information,
addressing, geodata, content, location based information etc ...
There is a real need to consolidate not only the data but also the
mechanisms to manage it.
Taking the above into consideration I am contemplating the following :
1) Using OFBiz as a commons platform.
2) Exposing all existing OFBiz services relating to facilities, parties,
contact information, address, geodata, content ... to external clients via
web services.
3) Publish a WSDL for all necessary services.
4) Client applications can read the WSDL file to determine what operations
are available on the server.
To-date, I have not found anything comprehensive in terms of documentation
or user experience as to how this might be achieved. Of all the OFBiz + "web
services" posts I found this one (
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3877) seemed the closest to the
mark, but I get the impression that some of this is still work in progress.
(If I am off the mark here, please feel free to correct me).
Your thoughts and comments regarding "OFBiz : a Common Platform" would be
most appreciated.
Kind regards
Grant
