My preference is to use freemarker. With Form widgets, Its nearly impossible to deliver UI/UX for todays.
Thanks and Regards Anil Patel Hotwax Media Inc http://www.hotwaxmedia.com/ ApacheCon US 2013 Gold Sponsor http://na.apachecon.com/sponsors/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacques Le Roux" <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Saturday, January 4, 2014 11:52:34 AM Subject: Re: OFBiz In 2014 To be pragmatic, rather than working on new features, a new framework or whatever, I'd like to work on "Widget & Application HTML clean-up" https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5040 I have heard much complaints about this and I'd really like to 1st replace as much as possible the Freemarker templates used in backend by widget forms. I know already some cases where it's impossible, like the geo location. But in most cases this should be possible and would much facilitate designers work, when themes or such are needed. Because we would then have a consistent HTML generation. And in most cases even a better (consistent) UI, compare the old Price Rules and Promotions for instance (still available at https://demo-old.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProductPriceRules?productPriceRuleId=9000 https://demo-old.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProductPromoRules?productPromoId=9000 ) Because it contained a new FTL template, I recently refused to commit a working patch for "Improve to allow purchase order ship method options" https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5387 I though must say that I still want to finish pending new features (actually 2 new specialpurpose components) 1) I expect to merge the seo branch soon https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5312. I only see minor issues now, and anyway at some point you need to have your feet wet... 2) And to finish the Solr integration https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5042. I sill have to figure out how bad is the security issue. In a first step adding a credential acces to the the Solr admin should be enough. But yes underneath is not totally secured as is... Jacques On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:55 PM adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com wrote > Maybe we can use the start of the new year as an opportunity to consider > the future of OFBiz and update our road map: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document
