The "Introduction to Moqui Framework" document is now ready and available do download through SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/moqui/files/ This document is meant for application developers, ie for the same people who would use Moqui. It is 12 pages with 2 diagrams and should be a quick read, but describes where everything is in the framework and from a high level how to do various things. BTW, feedback on this document and on the framework itself would both be most helpful... -David On Apr 2, 2011, at 12:17 PM, David E Jones wrote: > > That is a good question. The best way to get an idea of how things would look > is to look at the example component (in runtime/component/example), the > configuration files (default: > framework/api/conf-default/MoquiDefaultConf.xml, environment-specific: > runtime/conf/...), and the interface definitions for the API > (framework/api/src/org/moqui/...). > > I'm working on a document now that describes the different parts of the > framework and how the API is organized ("Introduction to Moqui Framework") > and hopefully I'll have that posted this weekend. > > -David > > > On Apr 2, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Brett Palmer wrote: > >> David, >> >> We are interested in this project. Let us know the best way to start >> playing with the framework and see how we could use it. We do a lot of >> custom applications and moqui sounds like a framework that could be used for >> this. >> >> >> Thanks again for your efforts. >> >> >> Brett >> >> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:09 AM, David E Jones <d...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> I still don't know if or how all of this will turn out, but here is the >>> latest on the changes I've been wanting to make in the OFBiz Framework, but >>> gave up on doing directly in OFBiz about a year and a half ago. The >>> redesigned framework is a separate project that is now in beta (I just did >>> the release today): >>> >>> http://www.moqui.org/ >>> >>> The Moqui Framework is now feature-complete for the planned feature set of >>> the 1.0 version. There are details about this in the release notes, >>> including everything in this release and the previous 3 releases, plus a >>> list of features not to be included in 1.0. >>> >>> At this point the framework is far enough along that it is a clear >>> demonstration of the changes that I would like to see in OFBiz, but that are >>> difficult to do in a project with such a mature community and a large set of >>> software that depends on it. Some of the main things are how the security >>> and authorization are done, how the API is organized, the separation between >>> framework and non-framework runtime artifacts, the deployment model >>> (described in detail in the RunDeploy.txt file in the project), the way >>> templates are used for simple-methods (XML Actions in Moqui) and the >>> form/screen/etc widgets (XML Screens, Forms in Moqui), and how the web >>> "controller" in OFBiz could be combined with screens and made hierarchical >>> to introduce a lot of flexibility and far better organization of >>> applications (less files open, easier to find things, automatic menu >>> creation, per-used menu items/subscreens, and much more). >>> >>> Now that the beta is out the next step is to start building more real-world >>> applications with it (so far the framework just has an example app and some >>> basic tools built on it), and those will act as test cases as well. I don't >>> have any intention to create another project like OFBiz that is a >>> comprehensive ERP/CRM/etc/etc/etc system, and instead I'm hoping those will >>> be separate project. >>> >>> However, I am working on a project to act as a basis for various >>> applications that will share the same data model, common services, and >>> derive from a common set of stories too. This project is called "Mantle". To >>> see how this all fits together, check out the home page on the >>> moqui.orgsite which has a diagram that includes these things. There is also >>> a link to >>> the github repository that has the Mantle UDM (Universal Data Model) >>> progress so far. >>> >>> Back to the first comment: I don't know all of this will turn out. In a way >>> it would be interesting to have OFBiz migrate to use these things, but that >>> may not be of interest to very many in the community, so I won't be too >>> surprised if that never happens. I've already heard from a couple of people >>> who have proposed this idea, and I know some others would probably be very >>> against it. >>> >>> On the other hand, if anyone is curious about such a thing, now it's >>> possible to get an idea of what it might look like by look at the Moqui >>> Framework and the example application and such. >>> >>> -David >>> >>> >>> >
