Addendum. The passport component is currently not in the special purpose stack. It is available as a patch in a JIRA issue for evaluation.
Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > The passport component is an optional. So is the e-commerce component and > almost everything else is. There are some dependencies from components in > the applications and framework stacks to specifics in the special purpose > stack (birt, ldap - when applied and lucene?). But those are few, and we > can live with as these few enhance the functionality of the lower level > components and thus user experience. > > Where apps should be placed is matter of viewpoint. And we have viewpoints > aplenty. Some regard e-commerce to be a core (framework + application > stack) extension. In its current state it is part of a vertical to. Retail > in particular, as it isn't a complete front-end solution for B2B (multiple > verticals), B2G (ambiguous vertical) and marketplaces (again multiple > verticals). If you don't do manufacturing, shouldn't the same named > component not be an optional and thus not in applications. If you do HRM > but don't use the humanres component, shouldn't that component be better of > in the special purpose stack stack without being referenced in the > component-load.xml file. > > The special purpose stack is a good place for any application/component > but the base registers in the applications stack. We should consider to > make as many as possible optional in that stack, by removing its reference > in the aforementioned component-load.xml. As it would surely reduce server > load. And we would give adopters a choice. Not only before adopting, but > also during the lifespan. > > Best regards, > > Pierre Smits > > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > Based Manufacturing, Professional > Services and Retail & Trade > http://www.orrtiz.com > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Gavin Mabie <kwikst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Jacques >> >> My concern is about the proper use of the specialpurpose folder. Birt is >> IMO not a special purpose application, but rather a tool that can be used >> across applications, and so is Lucene. Additionally, these are optional >> functionalities and therefore non-core. My thinking is that if something >> is >> optional, non-core and not a special implementation of the framework, then >> it should go into this folder. So I agree that BIRT and Lucene are >> candidates for inclusion in this folder (my knowledge of OAGIS is sketchy >> at best). BTW I'm not to sure about calling it "Tools". "Plugins" is the >> term that is widely used for this sort of thing. >> >> Gavin >> >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Jacques Le Roux < >> jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi Gavin, >> > >> > Interesting, so you would suggest to create a new tools folder at the >> same >> > level of dependency than specialpurpose and to add this new passport >> > Component to it. >> > Then we could also move ldap. I thought about jetty also, but I will >> > rather open a new thread for that since we decided to discuss to move >> it to >> > Attic >> > >> > Do you (everybody ;)) see other components which could me moved to this >> > new tools folder? Maybe bi, birt, oagis, even lucene? >> > >> > Jacques >> > >> > >> > Le 21/03/2015 08:32, Gavin Mabie a écrit : >> > >> > Hi Jacques >> >> >> >> I know that there's been quite a bit of discussion about this and I >> don't >> >> want to rehash stuff that's been dealt with and agreed upon in the >> past - >> >> but is this really a special purpose component? It appears to be a >> >> tool/utility. Special purpose components should really be for special >> >> applications of the Ofbiz Framework, i.e. applying the framework in a >> >> special user or industry way. So for example, ecommerce is a special >> >> purpose component - it implements ofbiz in a user specific way. Ofiz >> >> Healh >> >> Care/Communications/Hospitality/Government/ etc would be industry >> special >> >> purpose components. >> >> >> >> Gavin >> >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Might indeed be interesting for a increase in the consumer area and >> not >> >>> the >> >>> back end (but with market places and that tendency might shift). >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> It seems there are some security concerns. See here: >> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth#OAuth_2.0. Yet the list of >> providers >> >>> is >> >>> impressive. >> >>> And I have look over the issue and wonder if we really need the gson >> and >> >>> paypal jars. >> >>> >> >>> Best regards, >> >>> >> >>> Pierre Smits >> >>> >> >>> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* >> >>> Services & Solutions for Cloud- >> >>> Based Manufacturing, Professional >> >>> Services and Retail & Trade >> >>> http://www.orrtiz.com >> >>> >> >>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:37 AM, Jacques Le Roux < >> >>> jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi, >> >>>> >> >>>> Shi Jinghai contributed a Passport Component for OAuth2 at >> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6135 >> >>>> >> >>>> It seems to me an interesting specialpurpose component to add. I >> will do >> >>>> so if nobody is against. >> >>>> >> >>>> Jacques >> >>>> >> >>>> >> > >
