most all of the systems for payment and shipping that ofbiz uses are XML.
some are POST (protocol) others are RPC.
another more complex is a view Handler outputs the UI as xml. this lets
the other end convert to the system used by the user.
This also lets all the features, such as roles and security be used.
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Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 1/24/2011 5:01 AM:
From experience, much people are inclined to XML-RPC, less troubles
Jacques
From: "Grant Edwards" <[email protected]>
Hi,
Agreed, if that was my requirement.
However my requirement is rather different. A core part of my "Commons"
application would be facilities, parties (party groups), contact
information, address (with GIS information), geodata and some content
management. I am keen not only on the data structures, but also all
the out
the box services for managing these data structures / entities. The OFBiz
admin console would also make the idea tool for the central management of
this type of data.
Given the afore mentioned, and time to market, OFBiz seems like a fairly
good option. What I was a little unsure about was how one might expose
existing OFBiz services to external clients.
WDSL or XML-RPC ?
Any thoughts ?
Kind regards
Grant
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:03 PM, BJ Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
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
