Adrian,
I think I was not clear. I was speaking about the "online" documentation accessible wth the Help button. For Applications I suggest
to use the word application. Base, entity, and security will never be documented at this level as there are no access for final
users to them.
Ruth,
I began one at http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Glossary some times ago, but it did not grow much since then... Please feel free
to make it grow, following the table structure used in glossaries below.
Sharan did a very good one for accounting at
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Accounting+Terms+Glossary
Bruno did one for Dashboard implementation
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Configurable+Dashboard
And Carstein for German terms at
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Accounting+Terms+Glossary+de_DE
Thanks
Jacques
From: "Ruth Hoffman" <rhoff...@aesolves.com>
Hello Developers:
IMO, the word "component" has a special meaning within the OFBiz domain. [See some of the original framework documentation for
that definition.] The term "application" is an abstraction and has not been given a formal definition within the OFBiz domain. At
least I am not aware of that definition. If one exists,/* please */enlighten me.
That said, a glossary of terms would be really useful for the online help. Once a glossary is in place, determining whether to use
the term "component" vs. "application" would be a simple decision regardless of the target audience.
Regards,
Ruth
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Adrian Crum wrote:
Components like base, entity, and security are not applications.
-Adrian
--- On Sat, 10/17/09, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote:
From: Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
Subject: Application vs component
To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 4:00 PM
Hi,
I have noticed that the word component is used in the
helping documentation.
I think we should better use the word applications
instead.
Component is a technical word and the helping documentation
should help at the business level.
Jacques
