[opencms-dev] Shopping cart module

[Mathias Lin | SYSVISION]

I'd like to know if anyone has implemented KonaKart into a productive OpenCms
website/shop and can give some shop URLs and/or experience about the
integration. Does it work fine or were there any difficulties.
Thanks. Mathias



Paolo Sidoli wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We've been asked to integrate our Java Shopping Cart (
> http://www.konakart.com ) with a CMS system. We are investigating the
> available Java CMS systems and OpenCMS is obviously a strong candidate.
> 
> All KonaKart functionality is available through Java APIs or SOAP web
> service APIs. The options that we have thought about are:
> 
> -Placing KonaKart into the same webapp as OpenCMS. This solution would
> perform well, but we envisage problems with conflicting Jars and it
> certainly isn't the cleanest solution to maintain. 
> 
> -Placing KonaKart into another webapp or even other server and
> communicating
> via SOAP calls. This would give us the most flexibility since KonaKart
> could
> be installed anywhere and just be seen as a service by OpenCMS. 
> 
> The web service approach is definitely our preferred integration method.
> If
> we went down that route, is there any functionality within OpenCMS to
> facilitate the communication via SOAP or does anyone have any examples
> that
> they could share?
> 
> Since KonaKart is free (and partly open source) and developed in Java, we
> feel that it could be a good match for anyone wanting to integrate
> shopping
> cart software within their OpenCMS based application. Therefore we'd like
> to
> create a module for the community and would welcome the help of anyone
> requiring this functionality who is already proficient with OpenCMS. Also
> we'd like to hear from any OpenCMS user who would be interested in using
> integrated shopping cart functionality in order to gauge the level of
> interest ( enquiries at konakart.com ).
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Paolo Sidoli
> 
> 
> 


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SYSVISION Ltd., China
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