[NGO] Re: NGO Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4

[Jon Stahl]

On Jul 2, 2006, at 3:29 PM, David Geilhufe wrote:

>
> One note about "service" integration... CiviCRM will provide a stable 
> service-- probably SOAP-- when there is a demand for it... right now 
> Plone would be the first demand for it. If folks started to work on 
> Plone/CiviCRM integration, they can expect the stable service to be a 
> change the CiviCRM team would make to accommodate the integration. But 
> first someone needs to work on it.
>

So, it seems like something of a chicken-and-egg problem.  :-)

I'm no developer, but I can't understand how anyone in the Plone 
community could start working on an integration module to an API that 
doesn't exist and isn't documented.

IMHO, CiviCRM needs to meet non-PHP platforms (such as Plone) halfway 
by building and documenting a platform-agnostic service-based API 
(SOAP, REST, whatever).

Did the Drupal/Joomla -> CiviCRM integration work begin before there 
was a documented PHP API they could plan against?  If so, what were 
their first steps?    Maybe we can learn from that experience.


best,
jon



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