[Mifos-developer] interest in an external interface to Mifos

To the Mifos Community,

We have had some inquiries regarding the availability of a means of accessing Mifos from external systems (in order to integrate Mifos with an external system).  Some preliminary work has been done to explore a SOAP interface to Mifos as an example of one possible approach. 

I wanted to put this out to the community to gauge what level of interest there is in such a feature.  If you have a need for an interface to Mifos that could be used from an external system, please reply to this posting.  In your reply, it would be useful to know how you think you could make use of such an interface to Mifos if it were available.

Cheers,

--Van

Hello Van,

We have been exploring on SOA, with exposing a MIFOS interface as a service and acting as a service requestor. We were looking at taking it forward by identifying

1. standard XML document
2. XML Schema Definition
3. This being an exchange of financial information we need to ensure that some sort of message queuing is in place
4. Encoding of the xml data, converting data to Unicode.

The idea behind this was to explore options of an inter-application communication (say another banking application).

Since MIFOS may require communicating with multiple systems we were also looking at an option of having a transaction manager.

We would be very interested in pursuing this further, any thoughts would be very helpful.

Hi All,

Some time back as part of one of our researches within the organization we had planned to look at an option of developing an Enterprise Messaging Middleware which can queue up messages, send it to the required destination and connect to any application using any communication protocol.

A quick brief on what the application can do:

    1. Listen to any application using any communication protocol (tcp, http, soap, xml etc..).

    2. A transaction manager which would ensure that every request is handled within the middleware.

    3. A Message queue which will queue up messages - (both request from REQUESTER and response from PROVIDER)

    4. A Message Manager which would ensure that every message gets delivered to the required destination (both either REQUESTER or PROVIDER)

    5. A Time Manager which would ensure the life of a Message and also take care of the response time from the PROVIDER.

This is a quick thought on what can be built with respect to the queuing system being discussed as part of interfacing with external systems again this will/should evolve and change based on specific requirements being outlined with respect to MIFOS. Thoughts are welcome.

Regards,

mayank 

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