Hi Ashish, Divesh, I would say that some of OFBiz inspiration is at http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Related+Books
Also we moved from * Jetty to Tomcat (OFBiz version 3) * Minerva to DBCP (just after OFBiz version 4) * JOTM to Geronimo Transaction manager (OFBiz version 4) Also ECAs replaced previous attempts on workflow engines (notably Shark which was actually an enhancement of the 1st OFBiz workflow) It's all from the top of my head right now HTH Jacques ----- Original Message ----- From: Ashish Vijaywargiya To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:16 AM Subject: Re: Designs behind OFBiz Hello Divesh, This is very good post and I would wait to see comment from other senior members involved in this project. Here are few points that I was thinking since last few days and putting here for your reference. -- Initially the project was following the design pattern provided in the book "Core J2ee Patterns" http://www.corej2eepatterns.com/. -- As the time passed away community discussed so many things on the mailing list and then did vote to move further with the best things in favor of the project. Here are few things that I remembered. --- Initially OFBiz was distributed with jsp files for presentation purpose and then later we have switched to FTL's. --- JPublish was used initially - I am not able to memorize too much details on this project. In past there were no / less activity in this project so community decided to move something better and stable in this area. Now the project is moved to GoogleCode - Please refer: http://code.google.com/p/jpublish/ --- Move from Beanshell to Groovy. The activity on Beanshell project was almost nil so community decided to move to the alternate framework for scripting purpose. There were a long discussion on mailing list to choose which one from available alternates i.e Groovy & Ruby scripting language. Then due to so many similarity in Groovy code with Java Syntax community moved along with Groovy project. AFAIK beanshell was one man army open source project - I can be wrong on this point but again this is in my memory. --- Another interesting document: http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/JAw HTH! -- Ashish On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Divesh Dutta <divesh.du...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote: Hello all, I would like to know that, Was there any Blue Print, or Design developed when OFBiz was imagined or started. Do we have any documentation, Where when one get information like, What Design patterns were kept in mind when OFBiz was started. How OFBiz evolved or What was initial thought behind this and as time went by , How these designs changed? Thanks -- Divesh Dutta Divesh Dutta wrote: Hello all, I would like to know that, Was there any Blue Print, or Design developed when OFBiz was imagined or started. Do we have any documentation, Where when one get information like, What Design patterns were kept in mind when OFBiz was started. How OFBiz evolved or What was initial thought behind this and as time went by , How these designs changed? Thanks -- Divesh Dutta
