Hello all! I'll get right to it.
Scenario: 1) I have a pre-built, no-ofbiz webapp built using a separate MVC framework (Spring, struts, etc) 2) This app needs an ecommerce solutio. So in this non-ofbiz webapp, a user can add a bunch of items to a shopping cart , and click "buy" and have ofbiz handle the rest. Now, the products may be added to OFBiz using one of the out-of-the-box applications, but the user should browse the product catalog and buy shopping cart items from the external webapp. Ideal solution: 1) Expose ofbiz's out-of-box order processing application via RMI/SOAP/some-other-remoting-technology . Essentially I want to staple ofbiz's shopping cart and order processing parts onto the side of this other application. Another user described a similiar scenario in another post: http://www.nabble.com/using-ofbiz-as-an-authentication-store-for-a-webapp--to15424697.html#a15442073. I've semi-disqualified SOAP at this point. Since OfBiz integrates with Axis at an API level, this would require me to go in and modify a number of OfBiz classes so that they emit proper XML (for WSDLs and whatnot) since only simple types are support out of box Feels like a less that optimal approach. So now, I'm looking into RMI, but I want to make sure I'm doing things in a way that makes sense and that lines up with any current de facto Best Practices. Right now, I'm thinking of: (a) going into the services xml files under the "order" application and (b) then exposing order and shopping cart services by setting "export=true". Is this approach workable? Anyone have any experience or sample code for doing this? Another theorhetical approach would be to essentially include all the ofbiz jar files inside my WEB-INF/lib directory and then just import the necessary ofbiz classes into my webapp classes. Now I know this *specific* approach is not compatible with OFBiz since OFBiz expects a certain directory structure, but I was wondering if the *concept* of "embedding" ofbiz application in a "standard" webapp in some manner is (a) possible and (b) exactly how should one approach it? Thanks for any help you can provide! -DeAngelo Lampkin
