[Typo3-dev] RE: integration question [RESEND]

[dan frost]

I have been working on a few ideas to do content integration. Accessing 
content stored by Typo3 from your Java server is quite simple - just use 
JDBC / MySQL (or other) driver to connect directly OR build a 
typo3-db-wrapper. Building a wrapper could be done by (for example) make 
typo3 render xml pages of content. This content can then be used by Java.

There are various solutions to each, depending on what you want to do.

I would say: use Php5 and Java to talk to each other. Make a Php5 object 
to organise the data for Java. The Php5<->Java interaction is, then, an 
enterprise pattern (thereabouts).

I am currently building a Java interface to a php application (built 
inside typo3). I then plan to build a java applet backend - and have 70% 
worked out how to do it...

dan


Dima Rogozin wrote:
> Sorry for resend,
> apparently the first post was sent as HTML and the email body did not make
> it through...
> D.
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> Hi Typo3 developers!
> 
> Our company is considering an integration of our system with Typo3 and I'd
> like to get an advice on how to approach this task. I'm total novice to the
> Typo3 and I just read some docs and played with the demos.
> 
> Our application is a Java based server which need access to a content stored
> in Typo3. The system must be able to browse the content repository, read and
> write data and optionally create versions inside Typo3 (checkout/checkin).
> How one would do this? One way we can go is to work completely on the DB
> level accessing tables directly. We did it before for a few other CMSes (for
> example, BroadVision). It works but it is not the best approach.
> 
> Can we do better with Typo3? Are there any APIs/extensions to allow a 3d
> party products to access Typo3 repository?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any recommendations,
> Dima Rogozin,
> Idiom Technologies
>