Raj - I would love to know more about the Liferay integration. Also would you be willing to share a URL so we can see how it looks?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raj Saini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 4:13:27 AM (GMT-0700) America/Denver Subject: Re: Advice needed: Integrating an External Webapp with OfBiz Order Application service layer via RMI... Hi David, I had the exactly same feeling you have now when I started looking at the OFBiz as e-commerce solution. Immediate thought that came to me why not to have my own store front in the technology of I like for example a JSP, struts etc etc. Looking deep into the system I found it was a unwarranted thought and current framework (widgets, screens, freemarker etc.) are no less than other frameworks. Going back to your question, what exactly you mean by clearly separate store front? To me it looks clearly separate as you can create your own web application and have your e-commerce store front as you want without keeping any thing from the default technologies. If you are looking for network level communication, I think RMI is the way to go if both of the applications are Java based. Recently, I had integrated OFBiz with a Liferay Portal where store front was written as a set of portlets. Thanks, Raj David Legg wrote: > Hi DeAngelo, > > I'm a 'me-too' on this subject. > > It's only in the last week I got round to trying out OfBiz. After the > initial Wow! factor died down I quickly realized that the storefront > looks almost hard-wired to the back-end. In the short time I've been > subscribed to the list I've seen several similar requests for advice > on how to cleanly separate the store front from the backend with no > apparent solution so far. > >> 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 > > Regards, > David Legg > >
