Hi Eric, Assuming you want your users' data to reside on OFBiz, I think one of the below options might be suitable: - Authenticate everything through LDAP (I think simpler, cleaner, easier) - implement in JForum the interface net.jforum.sso.LoginAuthenticator either by creating a new class or actually modifying net.jforum.sso.DefaultLoginAuthenticator and make that class call a web service to OFBiz to authenticate against it. The details are for you to figure out, I'm just trying to help with the overall picture. Mind you though if you implement it this way I think you still need to replicate the users data in both systems.
Given what you are trying to do is customization, there is no way of accomplishing this without digging into code in both applications. I gather from your questions below you are still somewhat new to OFBiz and this might pose a challenge. You might want to get much more familiar with the framework before going into advanced topics including things like integration with other systems. Cheers, Taher Alkhateeb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Halim" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2014 3:00:11 AM Subject: Re: OfBiz with JForum Thanks Taber. I got your point. I don't have problem running these 2 separately. Actually my issue is how to integrate their login. Once users register on Ofbiz, users are automatically become JForum users and can post a thread on JForum. And also once login into Ofbiz, I don't want users to login again for JForum. So I was thinking including JForum into Ofbiz component and use external login key feature to integrate the login. Now if these 2 are separate from each other. I hope someone can help me how to integrate the login issue. Is this called SSO? Or should I explore something on CAS and LDAP? Or maybe little trick like iFrame? Thanks On Jul 5, 2014 4:26 AM, Taher Alkhateeb <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > I took another look into JForum as it interested me for our project. I > realized, however, that this is as you said not a library but a full > application stack. It has security, DAO, mail, file management, user > interface, internationalization and a lot more. > > Therefore, I think it should not be integrated with OFBiz given the huge > overlap in functionality. It is like saying let's integrate OFBiz with Drupal > or Joomla. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you are not going to > use OFBiz entities, OFBiz interface, OFBiz service engine and indeed any of > the core functions of OFBiz then why integrate in the first place! > > I would suggest a lighter approach of having two separate systems fired up > independent of each other and if needed communicate between the two systems > through web services. > > Taher Alkhateeb > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, July 4, 2014 10:13:24 PM > Subject: Re: OfBiz with JForum > > You could create a Jira issue, JForum is BSD licensed, so we would maybe > include it as an OFBiz specialpurpose component... If its quality is good > enough... > Ad said Mike we could also look at the ecommerce forum, would be another > issue then (with more than it does not work) > > Jacques > > Le 04/07/2014 17:29, Eric Halim a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > JForum does not come as library but a whole folder contains its own file > > structure. > > > > So I really don't know where to extract these JForum files in Ofbiz. > > > > As per now I run JForum on separate TomCat instance. Extracted on TomCat > > webapp folder. But I wonder how to deploy this JForum inside Ofbiz as Ofbiz > > component. > > > > Thanks. > > > > On Jul 4, 2014 5:44 PM, Taher Alkhateeb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Eric, > >> > >> Can you specify the difficulty you are facing? Adding libraries to OFBiz > >> components is rather trivial. > >> > >> Taher Alkhateeb > >> On Jul 4, 2014 12:39 PM, "eric" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi James, > >>> > >>> I still having difficulties how to deploy JForum as Ofbiz component. Can > >>> you > >>> guide me? > >>> > >>> What I have done for this moment is I have installed JForum but on > >>> separate > >>> Tomcat server not as Ofbiz component. > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> View this message in context: > >>> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/OfBiz-with-JForum-tp4650890p4652217.html > >>> > >>> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >>> > > > > --
