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Projects:Openbravo POS Improvement of Synchronization/Technical Documentation

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Introduction to Kettle

Kettle is a free, open source (LGPL) ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) tool by Pentaho that allows to isolate the integration logic and connectivity issues. This tool is already used in the integration of Openbravo ERP with the business intelligence tool by Pentaho.

Being an ETL tool, Kettle is an environment that's designed to:

For more information:

Project Plan: main development steps

Implement the current web services using the new web services architecture

The new web services architecture allows to create easily web services as a direct image of the underlying database structure and also it allows to create more complex web services as a plug-ins in Openbravo ERP.

The development work consist of:

Estimate: 10-15d

Develop the current integration process using Kettle

Move all the current logic of integration that is currently in Openbravo POS, in the package src-erp to Kettle. Kettle will connect to Openbravo POS database, and to the Openbravo ERP web services.

The development work consists of:

Estimate: 5-7d

Integrate all customer data

Extend the current integration of customer data.

The development work consists of:

Estimate: 3d

Integrate all taxes data

Create a new integration process associated to the products list integration that integrates all taxes information needed in Openbravo POS.

The development work consists of:

Estimate: 5d

Integrate all product attributes data

Create a new integration process associated to the products list integration that integrates all the attributes information needed in POS. This steps depends on the development of the new attributes feature that will be developed for Openbravo POS.

The development work consists of:

Estimate: 5-7d

Integrate all inventory data

Currently only integration of the main warehouse data is integrated and this data integration is included in the products list integration. This integration must be extended and detached from the products list integration.

Estimate: 3d

Integrate all refunds data

Currently only the sales orders are integrated. A new process that integrates refunds must be developed the same way sales orders are.

Estimate: 5d

Integrate all payment data

All the different payment options available in POS are not included in the sales orders integration. All this information must be included to allow better management of payment data in ERP.

Estimate: 5d

Integration process execution on events

Kettle provides its current methods to execute the integration process. It is required that based on events in Openbravo ERP or Openbravo POS these integration processes are executed too.

The development work consists of:

Estimate: 5d

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