allond@fts-soft.com wrote:

> I know this is a bad idea. Believe me I know (
> I'll try to explain the nature of my problem a bit more:
>
> What I have are 2 separate *existing* applications. Both are working,
> valid products.
> What I was asked to do is integrate the 2 apps, with minimal impact on
> any of them (and of course we need it now, has to be robust, etc...)
>
> Application 'A' is GUI-oriented, and application 'B' is more of a
> back-office nature.
> What I want to achieve is that when 'A' creates a new entity, it will
> call 'B' to create the needed entity/ies, and then one commit will be
> done - to ensure that either both 'A' and 'B' succeded, or nobody did.
> Hope this clarifies the problem a bit...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allon.

I think the best solution, well other than firing the person in
management that purchased the original software without considering
integration issues, would be to write a third application that
interacts with A and B.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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