Hello,
My company and I are new to the Dynamics products. We use Dynamics Finance and Operations (and the Commerce/Retail module) and the CRM. We need to develop a middleware application between the Dynamics products and our internal applications. This middleware will be a simple REST API, its tasks will be: the OData/HTTP calls, authentication and put some results in cache.
We would like to implement the middleware in Java (my company's official programming language) and use OData (read product data from FO, create sales quotation, get some prices in FO Commerce, modify customer values in the CRM...), but we're afraid some features/services/modules (now or in the future) are only accessible by some C# SDK.
Do you guys know some stuff (features, services, modules, APIs, etc) in the Dynamics world a client/application can not access through OData/HTTP ?
We did a few tests using a ASP.NET Web API and the OData connected service but we were a bit disappointing: it's hard to integrate this in a CI/CD environment (generate the C# code in the pipeline on different Dynamics environment/different $metadata files), documentation is hard to find and the generated code is kind of difficult to use (in comparison of what we expected. e.g. to pass "$top" query param or "oun" headers you have to use hooks on the DataServiceContext instance). Of course we would like to use our Java technologies but we're afraid that in X years our company installs another module only accessible from a C# SDK.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you
