From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: OFBIZ Manufacturing
From: "Pierre Smits" <[email protected]>
Hi Jacques, all,
So what needs to be done so that OFBiz can connect to an ESB and that info
and data is delivered through that ESB to either the portal in the IMAGINE
platform or the partner with his system at the other end of the ESB?
Hi Pierre,
I had a small experience with Mule (between ElasticPath and OFBiz) in 2007. I will try to find some clues to you whenI will get a
chance...
Actually the mule machine was only used through HTTP engine as this time.
Kind of REST if you want, it's another possibility
This was used to sync promos, products, stocks, prices and giftcards
SOAP has been improved these last times in OFBiz. I think it's now also good
choice.
Sorry I can't help you more on that part. It really depends on the environnement. ESBs are capable of using a lot of protocols. So
you could also use JMS for instance.
In OFBiz you can refer to serviceengine.xml for possible service engines.
Someone in the team also created a MuleEngine. But I don't think it has been
ever used.
Jacques
I understood that an ESB is not your own recommendendation. My intention was to give you some elements to discuss with ESB zealots
as long as OFBiz is enough for a general feature (an OFBiz application). On the other hand there are of course also good reasons
to use an ESB when you get many protocols to handle between 3rd systems. If they are able offer SOAP or XML-RPC web services OOTB
(like OFBiz does) this is then moot from an OFBiz POV.
It would be great to have REST services as easy to use as are exported services
at the moment...
Jacques
