ApacheCon NA 2015 Travel Assistance Applications now open!

2014-12-14 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All Forwarding this message about help with travel costs for attending ApacheCon US 2015. Please note that we have been asked to look at providing a full OFBiz track. Details of what we are interested in presenting can be found at the link below: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OF

Re: Data File Tools and Hierarchical Flat Files

2014-12-14 Thread Mike Z
Normally with an ETL you would use it to read an xml/CSV file (I.e from a supplier ) and directly update the DB, rather than create an intermediary xml file. Interesting option though. Sent from my BlackBerry® PlayBook™ www.blackberry.com -- *From:* "Ron Wheeler" *To

Re: Data File Tools and Hierarchical Flat Files

2014-12-14 Thread Ron Wheeler
You can do that as well (talk to database or web service) but sometimes it is easier to work through the Data Import function of the software since the vendor (OFBiz in this case) may put some effort into maintaining a stable Data Import format while the underlying services and data structures