Integrating to Other Ecommerce Systems / Removing JavaScript

[BrettS]

Hi,

I am an experienced J2EE developer, but Ofbiz newbie who has been developing an ecommerce prototype for my company based on the ecommerce module of Ofbiz. We intend that this prototype should eventually be used in two ways:
- Firstly, in tandem with the standard ecommerce module on a standalone installation of Ofbiz.
- Secondly, as a front end to external ecommerce systems such as legacy systems.

I have a few questions. Considering the lack of detail I have given these must be difficult to answer with a high level of confidence. None the less, if anyone wishes to share their experiences and opinions, I would be most grateful.

Firstly, I need to remove all JavaScript/DHTML from my version of the ecommerce module. I have done a few pages already. So far it has been form validation and form submission and not given me any problems. Are the rest of the pages like this, or are there some nasty suprises waiting for me?

Secondly, has anyone had to integrate Ofbiz ecommerce to a customers existing backend system? Did they find that difficult?

Thank you.

Regards

Brett S

[BJ Freeman]

ofbiz uses ftl or widgets to generate the servlet you see on the demo.
it uses css to place where those servlets go
so there is one template for all the pages you see for products.
However ecommerce in ofbiz can not be made without the rest of ofbiz.
the ecommerce is a public view of the products in the catalogs.
Ecommerce is draws it data from a db backend.
Now if you have another DB you can hook that into ofbiz with some work,
or just port it over to the ofbiz data model.

There is no need to remove anything from your current site since you
will not be using the htmls files.

you will be spending time setting up a theme and pages in ofbiz to
accomplish the look and feature you want.

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Is+OFBiz+for+Me
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Home

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BrettS sent the following on 5/3/2010 8:45 PM:

> Hi,
>
> I am an experienced J2EE developer, but Ofbiz newbie who has been developing
> an ecommerce prototype for my company based on the ecommerce module of
> Ofbiz. We intend that this prototype should eventually be used in two ways:
> - Firstly, in tandem with the standard ecommerce module on a standalone
> installation of Ofbiz.
> - Secondly, as a front end to external ecommerce systems such as legacy
> systems.
>
> I have a few questions. Considering the lack of detail I have given these
> must be difficult to answer with a high level of confidence. None the less,
> if anyone wishes to share their experiences and opinions, I would be most
> grateful.
>
> Firstly, I need to remove all JavaScript/DHTML from my version of the
> ecommerce module. I have done a few pages already. So far it has been form
> validation and form submission and not given me any problems. Are the rest
> of the pages like this, or are there some nasty suprises waiting for me?
>
> Secondly, has anyone had to integrate Ofbiz ecommerce to a customers
> existing backend system? Did they find that difficult?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards
>
> Brett S

[BrettS]

Hi BJ,

Thanks for your prompt reply to my vague question.

If we hook up to another system, I image we would still be installing Ofbiz (regardless of what we actually use), just pulling ecommerce data from somewhere else.

Porting another database to the Ofbiz data model sounds very promising. Are the modelling files hard to use? Any more difficult than say, Hibernate for example?

Thank you.

Regards

Brett S

[BJ Freeman]

I am not clear what you mean by hook up to another system.

the steps are to create a datasource in the entiyengine.xml
use the webtools to generated the ofbiz entities models from the db.
https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/webtools/control/view/ModelInduceFromDb

then using those write code to create a map from the old db to the ofbiz
and store the data.
you will have to modify the entities created some to have them work like
they did in the old db.

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BrettS sent the following on 5/3/2010 10:10 PM:

> Hi BJ,
>
> Thanks for your prompt reply to my vague question.
>
> If we hook up to another system, I image we would still be installing Ofbiz
> (regardless of what we actually use), just pulling ecommerce data from
> somewhere else.
>
> Porting another database to the Ofbiz data model sounds very promising. Are
> the modelling files hard to use? Any more difficult than say, Hibernate for
> example?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards
>
> Brett S

[BrettS]

Hi BJ,

Thanks for your reply. My apologies for not making myself clear. What I mean by hooking up to another system is basically, something like the steps you have just described.

Thank you.

Regards

Brett S

[BJ Freeman]

kewl (great)

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BrettS sent the following on 5/4/2010 4:53 AM:

> Hi BJ,
>
> Thanks for your reply. My apologies for not making myself clear. What I mean
> by hooking up to another system is basically, something like the steps you
> have just described.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards
>
> Brett S