+1 I think it should be in the framework too.. -Enrique Ruibal
David E Jones wrote: > > > On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:45 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am reviewing the stuff I did some time ago in the "bi" component >> (Business Intelligence, in specialpurpose) and I would like to start >> to clean up/enhance a few that prototype. >> >> As a first step I would like to separate the lower level services >> (like the generic ones that are used to translate operational keys >> into olap keys) for BI from the ones related to specific >> applications: all the artifacts that are application specific >> (entities, services and ecas) will be moved to the proper component. >> >> The doubt I have is this: since the higher level component will use >> the lower level services defined in the specialpurpose/bi component, >> this will create a bad dependency from applications to >> specialpurpose... >> >> What is the best way to fix this? Move part of the bi services into >> the framework? move the bi component into the framework? or for now, >> since the code there is since a prototype, keep everything into bi >> (as is now) and postpone this re-factoring? > > I'm a big fan of having BI stuff in the framework, like general ETL > tools (as much as that applies, and I know those are based on other > framework tools) and the ad-hoc reporting web pages based on the star > schema tables desired (which is really cool). > > The only think I can think of that might be funny is in the ad-hoc > reporting tool if it was in the framework we wouldn't want application > specific stuff in it. We may end up wanting to have the BI tools in > the framework, the ETL implementations per applications component in > that component, and a big ad-hoc reporting app that builds on all of > that stuff. Of course, maybe that could be data driven too and like in > the framework and it wouldn't be a problem. > > Anyway, just some thoughts. I do like the framework idea though. > > -David > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Question-about-component-dependency-related-to-the-BI-%28Business-Intelligence%29-tp18486676p18497921.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
