Second component integration for products

[reactionmarketing]

First of all I found this post witch has some similarities to this question, however based on our need I felt it best to clarify. Also the following link is for version 1, not 2.

http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=75626.0

Now for the version I will be using. It will be the newest version, the extension directory shows it as being 2.0.22b.

This question is before I try an install and look around at the features as well, I have already been told be other cart developers that what we need is impossible so I want to ask before hand to make sure I don't waste hours on this in case it just plain cannot be done.

We have built a component that integrates with a proxy database that syncs suppliers for details on any given product, this data is EXTREMELY dynamic. So to leverage load we have this database on its own server (it will have many read/writes as data updates) so that way the sites physical performance is not impacted by this service, and the service server can be tuned to its functionality.

So the component loads the tables from this external database as products. We will need this VirtueMart to tie some of its features into using those tables instead. Portions can be adjusted to better suit VirtueMart if that is easier.

The main thing we need from this is the cart and checkout systems. Creating these features in our own component would be reinventing the wheel, witch is something we would like to avoid.

Most likely if this is possible we would hire someone who can help us link the components together.

[Maxim Pishnyak]

Connecting through tables in database? Maybe it's more clever to connect with the help of xml or soap protocols?

[reactionmarketing]

It is for greater ease in connecting with joomla's base structure, using this it can use Joomla's database and tables class to manipulate the data it can change, while displaying what it cannot.

[Maxim Pishnyak]

All that I could say you is good luck in creating interesting 3rd party custom VM extension.