Could you reveal anything about what the existing application (EA) is and
what it does?
We don't know what the EA was connected to, so there can't know if Koha
would work as middleware. It might be simpler to write your own middleware
in Symfony (I have grown fond of Guzzle), or some other framework and just
pull the data into a database that has the same structure as your old
system.
Thanks,
Cary
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Fitchett, Deborah <
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> Morning, all,
>
> We have a small dilemma:
>
>
> 1. Our brand new Alma system provides access to a bunch of data via
> RESTful API. It’s on The Cloud so we’re not going to be getting direct
> access to the database anytime soon.
>
>
> 2. We have an existing application that would be more efficient if
> it could get that data, but which only uses ODBC. (I’m told other available
> drivers are:
> - Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE
> - Microsoft Office
> - Microsoft OLE DB Provider
> - Microsoft Datashape
> - OLE DB Provider
> - SQL Server Native Client 10.0)
>
> Does anyone know if there’s any middleware out there that could make these
> two things talk to each other, or do we give this up as a “Would have been
> nice, but <shrug>”?
>
> Nāku noa, nā
>
> Deborah Fitchett
> Senior Advisor, Digital Access
> Library, Teaching and Learning
>
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