Ofbiz is an excellent application development framework. I think that
any efforts that would focus on selling this aspect would attract
newcomers to the project. In the past, I have recommended ofbiz as a
development framework to a few architects and senior developers that I
have worked with. When they take a look at the ofbiz site, their first
reaction is to reject ofbiz as they think it is just another ecommerce
application.
I know a few of the users on the mailing list would like to see the core
development framework of ofbiz separated from the other components.
It would be interesting to know how many of the committers for ofbiz
that DON'T use ofbiz primarily for ecommerce. I think that would be the
main stumbling block to separating the core development framework.
There are some interesting areas being worked on that such as Hans
Bakker's BIRT implementation and /Jacques Le/ Roux Axis integration for
complex types that will give the development framework even more power.
jonatan soto wrote:
It would be a good idea a full integration of Maven2 on Ofbiz? it is already
considered/done? I think it may be helpful to control the release mechanism
and also gives the ability to separate everything in modules as Harmet
said.
For example, Ofbiz core would be the main module and all the compoments will
depend of it so in order to activate/deactivate components it will be very
easy, just changing the main POM should be enough.
I've only seen one person who is using his own repository of release 9.04,
but probably it is a good idea to have ofbiz on a public repository.
Sorry if it doesn't make sense, it's just an idea from an ofbiz noob.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Harmeet Bedi <[email protected]>wrote:
