Oliver,
would using an existing portal server be an option ?
There are portal servers out there (apache jetspeed2), that exist and
well maintained.
These servers are used in enterprises, to aggregate resource from
different applications and an ERP is a good candidate to use them.



On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Olivier Heintz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The questions are :
> ===========
> 1) which solution "generate or need" less code
>  - PortalPage with multiple portlet
>  - screen with multiple subscreen and form
>
> 2) is migration generated regression or bugs
>
> In my opinion:
> =========
> 1)
> - it's easier to use one portlet in multiple portalPage than a form in a
> screen, because only portlet should be update when a add or update action is
> done.
> - with portletAttribute it's easier to define specifics portalPage without
> new development, ex Supplier Profile page versus Employee Profile
> - for business Analyst and developer, boundary is more clear with portlet
> than sub-screen
> - it's easier to do generic form using by multiple portlet, ex: file content
> management (add, new version, update) form is used by PartyContentFiles,
> WorkEffortContentFiles, ...
> I know, most of the reasons is "ajax update" not portlet or sub-screen ;-)
>
> 2)
> - migration can be done by extending existing form for the first release, so
> not replace but added
> - migration should change nothing in service only in user interface, so
> correction is small
> - bad point for portlet:  sometime user have bug because there is a wrong
> data in PortalPortlet entity (or portletAttributes or ..) so it's more
> difficult for community to reproduce and to answer, if the current default
> data is correct.
> - Sometime migration help to clean some form, and so solve some bugs.
>
>
>
> Ps: In the last 2 years, most our customer has been done with Portlet
> (migrate from ofbiz screen or new one) most of these development are in
> separate addons, one per "component-portlet migrate", and other for new
> features.
> We (company I'm workinf for) has never send their because we (and specially
> me) had to time to review and clean the first addon which is portletWidget.
> This task is done since today :-)
> Each addon should be reviewed before being sent, but it will not be a too
> large job each time,
>
>
> Le 21/03/2012 17:48, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
>>
>> As a next step, after all these threads about the slim down will settle
>> down, we should probably, as a community, start to prepare the plan of
>> action, aka roadmap (we could use Jira for it): add there all the actionable
>> tasks coming out of this discussions; then, in these mailing lists we should
>> also start to discuss, as a community, what are the other priorities/goals
>> for the next few months of the project. We should probably start slowly with
>> some cleanup tasks and refactoring of old code, bug fixes etc... but we
>> could also come up with some more interesting priorities (like JCR or
>> reporting tools): then, based on the priorities identified by the community
>> we will start to explore how to design them; if an agreement is found we
>> will add the tasks to the roadmap as well; then we will have a clear and
>> shared plan of actions to keep us all busy for a while
>> If migration to portlets will be a priority item is something that should
>> be discussed with the community: the community is small and it should stay
>> focused on a few key goals at the time; if the community will decide that
>> the migration to portlets is something desirable then we will definitely
>> explore this concept.
>>
>> Jacopo

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