Apologies if I have been rather insensitive to the your exogitation. I was certainly not implying that we use Wicket. I am neither an expert in Wicket nor a champion of Ofbiz. I am merely elucidating the thoughts on the problems that I faced while having a whole team work on Ofbiz. I like Ofbiz and am sold out on it. I know that I have to work more, to convince the community of the change I am proposing and I am planning to do that in the next few weeks. I am planning to follow the HEMP approach as suggested by David, starting next week and share with the community, what I arrive at.
Ean Schuessler wrote: > > Vasanth Kamatgi wrote: >> But, the downside of this approach is - I would be losing the ofbiz >> community >> improvements in the ecommerce front end. for any change / bugfix / >> enhancement in the ecommerce module, I need to explicitly port it again >> in >> my own implementation, which is kind of contradictory to the reason why I >> had wanted to use an open source application with activity community in >> the >> first place. In fact, we had evaluated this option as well but discarded >> it >> for the reason mentioned above. >> > There is a risk but that risk is smaller than the community moving > arbitrarily to Wicket. If you feel that a Wicket solution would be so > strong that it would sway the opinion of the whole community then it is > your responsibility to undertake that risk. The community is very > unlikely to undertake such a risk based on someone saying "hey, I think > this is a great idea". We have undertaken a similar risk with our own > internal build-outs (worse, actually, since we built a new templating > framework instead of using an existing one). > > Really, conducted properly, the risk you outline is not so high. In > theory, your Wicket solution will be a thin binding layer between the > core OFBiz logic (which won't need to change) and your customer's HTML > (which must be custom). > > -- > Ean Schuessler, CTO > e...@brainfood.com > 214-720-0700 x 315 > Brainfood, Inc. > http://www.brainfood.com > > > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Using-Apache-Wicket-in-Ofbiz-presentation-layer-tp975468p977544.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
