Architecture
The overall architecture remains faithful to the Common Ground principles and all API specifications where applicable.
The architecture of Open Product focusses on excellent performance, optimal stability and to guarantee data integrity.
To that end, Open Product combines the Producttype API and Producten API that are essentially tightly coupled, into a single product. This allows for major performance improvements since related objects (like a ProductType for a Product) do not need to fetched over the network but can be directly obtained from the database. This also guarantees data integrity on database level, rather than on service (API) level.
An overview of the information model can be seen in the image below:
In addition, Open Product uses caching wherever possible to prevent needless requests over the netwerk to fetch data from external API’s. Data integrity can not be guaranteed on database level when relations are created to external API’s. In this case, data integrity is enforced on service level as much as possible.
No permanent copies are made of original sources in Open Product as dictated by the Common Ground principles.