I am a big fan of OSGi and I feel it is a right component management
technology to manage big project like OFBiz. This is one of the best to
manage the component dependencies. I will work further on the OFBiz-OSGi
and put more examples of how new bundles (aka plug-ins) can be developed.
Thanks,
Raj
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Addons are certainly a good idea. But a good handling of them is also
required (in other words they should never interfer).
I have a prospective customer (IT manager), who said that his company
is using OpenERP (Python) but he is worried about the mess
addons bring. He talked by experience...
I remember also have read that some OsCommerce (PHP) users turned to
Magento (PHP) because of addons issues
Maybe Apache Felix (OSGi Service Platform Release 4 implementation) is
also to consider. But at longer term I guess
http://felix.apache.org/site/index.html
Also it's worth to be noted http://markmail.org/message/zyvtk67scqtriqf7
Also http://opentaps.org/docs/index.php/Ofbiz-osgi-prototype
(contributed by Raj actually I will put it in OFBiz also a day or
another)
My 2cts
Jacques
From: "Bruno Busco" <bruno.bu...@gmail.com>
Having OFBiz splitted in a core framework and add-on modules seems to
me like a must if we want to improve features.
Add-on modules is how many large and popular projects are built.
Even OpenERP says to have more that 350 modules and offers different
flavours of it here http://www.openerp.com/discover/demonstration.html
I think we should start discussing on the module add-on system that we
want to implement in OFBiz.
I have read that there is a plan from Neogia people to introduce what
they have developed. Is there any schedule for this?
Are you going to write a Confluence page where we can see how it works?
Are we going to host the add-on modules on a separate SVN folder?
Thank you,
Bruno
2009/10/29 Tim Ruppert <tim.rupp...@hotwaxmedia.com>:
This sounds fantastic Marc - it's amazing to see many of the software
providers out there coming together to back this idea. This has the
unique
opportunity of taking everything that OFBiz does to the next level.
I guess the big question is, what's next to help get some of these
backend
ideas back into this newly refined mission? We're more than happy to
devote
resources to making this happen.
Cheers,
Ruppert
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HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
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On Oct 29, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Marc Morin wrote:
As many of you know, we at Emforium have been busy building out a
full set
of business software application to provide an "ALL-IN" comprehensive
solution for the small business market. When we started the
evaluation over
a year ago, Ofbiz was the selected platform of choice. Other
components are
Zimbra for email and concrete5 for web.
Over this time, we've spent our efforts providing an entirely new
UI front
end for the backend applications: sales order, inventory, CRM, admin,
reports, multi tenancy, published datasets (makes solution targeted
for any
market or geography), etc...
We have expressed privately that Ofbiz needs to have a new mission in
order to really drive it's importance and relevance as an open source
project. As it stands, it's scope is very wide, and not targeted a
providing and out-of-the box solution to any problem, save
ecommerce (even
then, lot's of styling work usually needed).
We would be 100% behind this direction for Ofbiz. We'd want to
contribute
back components now that are Emforium proprietary and would work to
reduce
the amount of deviation between our proprietary solution and this
newly
stated direction.
Marc
