XML, Mashups, and Drupal-As-Platform
Last modified: March 27, 2007 - 17:47
My (agentrickard) session on getting external data into Drupal went pretty well. You may download a PDF version of the presentation from my website.
The main points are basically:
- You don't need to batch import data into Drupal as long as users can find what they want
- "Lazy instantiation" is great for dealing with large data sets
- Drupal supports several methods of lazy instantiation
- Cache aggressively to reduce network latency
- Pipes is very cool.
In all, I think you'll find that Drupal can be a powerful integration framework, if you examine the APIs.