Thank you Taher.

On Jul 5, 2014 12:53 PM, Taher Alkhateeb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Jacques, 
>
> I missed your mail in the thread, so sure thing, most welcome! 
>
> Hi Eric, 
>
> LDAP is a subject of its own. You can start in here 
> http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ 
>
> I do not think triggers and database links are the best solution for 
> replicating the database. It is database dependent and I think an ugly hack. 
> You should figure out IMHO a clean solution at the application level, not the 
> database level otherwise we would all be programming in stored procedures and 
> using custom RDBMS code. 
>
> Finally, you need to read on LDAP setup for both OFBiz and JForum. The setup 
> instructions for OFBiz are in 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide#ApacheOFBizTechnicalProductionSetupGuide-SecuritySettings
>  
>
> Taher Alkhateeb 
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Halim" <[email protected]> 
> To: [email protected] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2014 6:48:57 AM 
> Subject: Re: OfBiz with JForum 
>
> Hi Taher, 
>
> Yes I'm newbie to Ofbiz still play around with Ofbiz. Thank you for your 
> suggestion to my issue. 
>
> I understand second option need users data to be replicated to JForum 
> database. It is more straight forward because both are relational database. I 
> can use trigger and db link to replicate the users data. 
>
> What about LDAP option? Does it mean all users data will be on LDAP? That 
> means when users register on Ofbiz then I must somehow replicate the users 
> into LDAP. Ofbiz and JForum will authenticated against LDAP then. Is that 
> correct? 
>
> Thanks 
>
> On Jul 5, 2014 7:54 AM, Taher Alkhateeb <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > 
> > 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 
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> 
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> > > >>>  
> > > >>> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. 
> > > >>> 
> > > > 
> > > 
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