Hi,

I will shortly be working on a project integrating WebSphere Portal with JD 
Edwards. Does anybody have advice on how this ought to be approached? The re
quirement is to display JD Edwards data within a portlet.

Thanks.

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Can anybody help with this? It is quite urgent.

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Surely somebody has attempted this?

Is it even possible? If so, how? Any feedback is much appreciated.

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I think your question is too broad to answer. Here are some of the ways you 
could accomplish the integration. This is applicable for any ERP software in
tegration with Websphere Portal.

JD Edwards does provide JCA and WSIF frameworks. As long as there is a JCA a
dapter available to talk to JD Edwards system you should be able to get the 
back end data through different ways.

1. In one scenario, based on user entered information in portlet, you could 
invoke a business command which can inturn talk to JCA adapter through a bus
iness delegate or a facade (any of your favorite design pattern) and display
 the results.

2. If there is a messaging system integrated with JDE, you can use synchrono
us communication (based on your need) and get xml data as output, parse it a
nd display in portlet

3. If you enabled the Webservices framework, send a soap request and get the
 response

There are number ways you could integrate with JDE or infact any ERP system 
in general. As long as ERP system supports JCA or web services, it should no
t be difficult to integrate with Websphere Portal (in theory atleast).

Post any specific questions so that you can get accurate answers from commun
ity.

Cheers,

Rajender Sriramoju

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