I just read their proposal and one of their project goal not to provide
integration with third party ERP, CRM system. Excerpts from their proposal:
"Outside the project's scope will be the development of vendor-specific
integrations, such as integrations with specific ERP or CRM systems, as
well as highly specialized services, such as a sophisticated product
recommendation service. However, the CloudFree platform will provide
frameworks and extension points to allow third parties building such
integrations and specialized services. "
May be we at ofbiz can look for integrating the OFBiz ERP and this will
certainly increase the OFBiz visibility.
Thanks,
Raj
Actually, I sent my reply half jokingly.
There have been requests over the years for OFBiz to have the ability
to start/stop/deploy/remove components dynamically - without
restarting the server. The response has always been that there are
class loader issues, component dependency issues, etc, etc - so it
wouldn't work. It seems to me that OSGi has addressed those issues.
(I'm not an expert on the subject, so I could be wrong.)
It would be nice if the folks at CloudFree joined our community and
worked toward getting our existing eCommerce/ERP platform running on
OSGi, instead of creating a new one.
-Adrian
Tim Ruppert wrote:
Interesting feedback Joe. I've had a look inside this and how it
works for OFBiz in general and am really interested to see how it may
help out. At first glance, my response was the same as Adrian's, but
these guys do have good experience, so it'll be nice to see how it
ends up looking.
Cheers,
Tim
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On Oct 10, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Joe Eckard wrote:
"The foundation of the CloudFree Platform is Equinox. Thus, everything
will be developed and deployed as OSGi bundles. Thus, it's valid to say
that Java is our technology of choice for the platform."
I've been exploring OSGi for a few months now and it seems like an
ideal solution for OFBiz (and enterprise frameworks in general). It
will be exciting to see what experienced OSGi developers come up
with to make the interesting features easier to use in our context.
-Joe
On Oct 10, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote:
http://cloudfree.net/
http://www.eclipse.org:80/proposals/cloudfree/
<http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/cloudfree/>
news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.cloudfree
In the news group, there is a reference to OFBiz under this thread:
"Why
another open source ecommerce platform?"
-R
