On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards <africado....@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > Ofbiz : a Commons Platform > > My client has a number of different applications each storing and > maintaining data similar to facilities, parties, contact information, > addressing, geodata, content, location based information etc ... > > There is a real need to consolidate not only the data but also the > mechanisms to manage it. > > Taking the above into consideration I am contemplating the following : > > 1) Using OFBiz as a commons platform. > 2) Exposing all existing OFBiz services relating to facilities, parties, > contact information, address, geodata, content ... to external clients via > web services. > When I tried web services in ofbiz last time (before a year or so) it was really hard to use them mainly due to the wsdl format generated, but this it has changed at least once from that time if I remember correct. >From the other hand, xml-rpc interface is much simple and just works for mos of the cases. Bilgin Ibryam > 3) Publish a WSDL for all necessary services. > 4) Client applications can read the WSDL file to determine what operations > are available on the server. > > To-date, I have not found anything comprehensive in terms of documentation > or user experience as to how this might be achieved. Of all the OFBiz + > "web > services" posts I found this one ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3877) seemed the closest to > the > mark, but I get the impression that some of this is still work in progress. > (If I am off the mark here, please feel free to correct me). > > Your thoughts and comments regarding "OFBiz : a Common Platform" would be > most appreciated. > > Kind regards > > Grant >
