Hi David, As usual you are a fantastically productive guy. Its a little awe inspiring. :-D
Have you given any thought as to how different display technologies like Vaadin, JSF or even Wicket could be accommodated in your framework? Playing with Vaadin has shown me how I wish my views were constructed in OFBiz. ~Ean On 04/02/11 01:09, David E Jones 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.org site 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. > -- Ean Schuessler, CTO e...@brainfood.com 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com
