AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

I'm hoping to find a way to use the connection handling of AbleCommerce to access values from a 3rd Party Database. Can I specify a connection string in the database.config and then use an able generic data access layer to query values from it to display on my pages? I can of course just create a new connection on my own and run my code side by side but I thought that if there was build in functionality for that from able it would be more scalable and the connection pooling would be handled better.

I checked the wiki and did not see anything that looked relevant.

Any advise?

You will have to go with your custom connection handling. AbleCommerce makes use of Nhibernate so you can create your Entities/Mappings for third party database objects but you will need separate session factory/session for those objects.