Hi Andreas,
Thank you for your reply.
Andreas Hartmann wrote:
what would the integration look like? Would the app just be embedded
into the Lenya-based website, or is there a relation between the data?
Passing information extracted from the Lenya content to the external
app (e.g., a hotel ID as request parameter) should be no problem, but
a deeper integration might require more work.
There is no relation with the data. So it would just be displaying the
forms for booking/enquiring. However, there is some relation with css.
Though I don't think that is what you are referring to by data relation.
I'm confident that this will be possible. Lenya is based on Cocoon
which is a great framework for application integration. We integrated
several apps into Lenya websites in customer projects.
There are several approaches for such an integration:
* Server-side via simply including the output in the page (single pages)
* Server-side, Lenya acts as a proxy (if the app has a page flow)
* Server-side via a web service, pages generated by Lenya (SOAP/REST/…)
* Client-side (JavaScript with AJAX/JSON)
* …
Both one and two sound correct. However, one might not work as there are
several successive forms: step1, step2, step3... like on a shopping cart
system where you first enter the shipping details then the billing
details. So maybe the proxy idea is good.
I never heard the term "rip off artist" before. Is it the same as "con
artist"?
Kind of. Except that you actually deliver the goods but at a very high
price. Usually the person being "ripped off" doesn't know it.
I guess the app is only accessible by registered agents, or can we
take a look at it online? I didn't find a booking section on the
website, only the enquiry forms …
Right on the home page it says (albeit in an image :/) "ready to book?"
This form and the following forms I would like to show on the Lenya
site. Right now they get their styling from the site as they are
deployed in the same war.
The first form gets your arrival date etc. Then next form presents you
with available properties. You choose the property you want. Then you
move on to either inquiring or booking. We seem to be getting a 500
error after that. ...rip off artists... I guess we could recreate most
of this in Lenya. Except for the bit that transmit data via SOAP. I will
have to take a look at going down this path in the future, as it seems
that I could treat the stripped down app as a CGI that accepts POST
data. Are my assumptions correct? Would that be easier and more
importantly quicker that trying to go with the Lenya as a proxy method?
Or is this basically the same thing?
Andreas, thank you for your great feedback. I will talk to our
outsourced developers and I will get in contact with some of the
companies on that page. If "management" approves, maybe we'll outsource
to someone else. Of course budgets are tight everywhere now. Which is
one reason I find myself clean this mess up.
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