The other area that I believe needs be fixed is the use of UtilProperties for both configurations and UI Labels. UI Labels used to be in properties files way back and at that time when migrating to XML format it made sense to keep using the same methods for properties and UI Labels to minimize the effort. I think handling of configurations versus UI Labels can be redesigned to be distinct functionalities.
-- Thanks & Regards, Mridul Pathak Senior Manager HotWax Systems http://www.hotwaxsystems.com > On Aug 8, 2016, at 10:56 PM, Taher Alkhateeb <slidingfilame...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > However as far as configuration files are concerned, I find the whole > approach currently used in OFBiz a bit confusing and problematic. There are > too many files scattered in too many places. Some of them are XML and some > are .properties. we should really have one or a few files preferrably in > one directory for all configurations related to framework and core > applications. Or maybe just one master configuration file for framework and > another one for applications and that's it. Also many configurations should > be code and vice versa. All of this makes tweking OFBiz confusing and > difficult. > > So my real preference is to shake things up, redesign and centralize > configurations for OFBiz. For example if you think of apache httpd, then > it's really one or two major files isn't it? It should be similar with us I > think.
