HI Eric, First of all, OFBiz has a unique set of functionalities that caters first to the handling of business transactions. Adding some component functionality that isn't inline with that is putting the handling of those business transactions at risk. In the case of forum functionality related to eCommerce, it could be so that the number of forum postings grows to such proportions that it might jeopardise the transaction handling.
So, from a business continuity angle having both in/on one system is not advisable. Apart from that, leveraging JForum with OFBiz data and vice-versa is doable. But there are intricacies. You have to take the following into consideration: 1. You're JForum participants can also register without ever using OFBiz eCommerce. So you need means to get the user's profile data into OFBiz 2. When using LDAP as the means to do authentication and authorization in both JForum and OFBiz you need to set both up to use that. 3. For OFBiz, currently there is no integrated functionality available that updates the LDAP data when user details (userid, first name, last name, password, etc) are modified in OFBiz. I expect that to be the same for JForum. If you want to implement implement functionality in either OFBiz or JForum to update the LDAP data I suggest you have al look at the Apache Directory Server project (http://directory.apache.org). Not only does the community have a (clusterable) Directory server and a good LDAP management solution, but also api's that you can use for integration. Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com
