Re: [OFBiz] Dev - EDI Reader

Posted by cjhowe on Sep 07, 2005; 6:32am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Dev-EDI-Reader-tp165966p165970.html

I guess that's where I'm lacking expertise (one of
many places anyway).  Is that much different (or any
easier) than taking a program like mec-eagle
(http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mec-eagle/eagle-RC3-102.exe?use_mirror=easynews)
to transform an edi file into an equivelent ebXML file
and then transform that ebXML file into an OFBiz
entity engine XML file (only doing the multiple
transformation for greater benefit of the community
rather than my specefic need)?  At the moment I'm
trying to import several supplier's catalogs into our
deployment so I'm not really concerned with any
acknoledgement or responses to send back.

--- "David E. Jones" <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> It would generally work out much better to do the
> integration at a  
> process level rather than the data level. In other
> words, as EDI or  
> ebXML or UBL or whatever requests come in just map
> the data to  
> various service calls, then use the results of those
> service calls  
> (possibly supplemented by extra information
> retrieved through the  
> Entity Engine) to prepare the response. This
> generally results in  
> less duplication of logic, with all of the benefits
> that entails (in  
> fact maintaining a system without that is very
> expensive and is  
> rarely really done adequately).
>
> -David
>
>
> On Sep 6, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Chris Howe wrote:
>
> > What exactly would be necessary to implement an
> edi or ebXML  
> > solution into OFBiz?  I am just now looking into
> this, so there is  
> > a huge gap in my understanding.  This is my
> understanding of how it  
> > works lets say for getting a product catalog from
> a supplier into  
> > OFBiz
> >
> > 1. Receive edi or ebXML file from supplier
> > 2. Translate file into xml that the entity engine
> understands
> > 3. Feed into entity engine.
> >
> > Is this correct, or am i missing something
> > --- [hidden email] wrote: EDI is a broad
> term.
> > Basically you need a reader that is configured by
> a
> > template to read
> > each EDi format and form.
> > This would require a service to monitor the folder
> > for the edi data the
> > call a service to decode and store the
> information.
> >
> >
> > Chris Howe wrote:
> > > Is there currently an EDI parser/reader in OFBiz
> > and
> > > if not, how difficult would it be to integrate
> > > something like EDI Reader?
> > > http://edireader.sourceforge.net/
> > >
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