Not sure why as discussion about changing java to RoR.
that is the same as saying change compiere to ofbiz.
That would be one big undertaking, as it is now, there are enough people
doing testing ofbiz.
That I would think would be a more constructive discussion.
Chris Howe sent the following on 8/4/2006 8:30 PM:
Judging by the responses I think I misunderstand RoR.
In my newly introduced mind I see RoR being of the
same kind of animal as the OFBiz framework. In that
mindset it would be a replacement of sorts.
I was trying to weigh whether it would be easier to
expand OFBiz's UI capabilities with AJAX and getting a
consensus on what an OFBiz template should and should
not include (ie OFBiz standards) for modularity sake
and what not or to rewrite OFBiz's busines logic in
RoR.
The majority of the actual usefulness that I saw with
RoR was the way it "consumes" data be it from a local
database or a webservice.
So, my question was more towards what is the ofbiz
framework giving us that Ror can't or doesn't easily.
And what benefits does RoR offer that can/can't be
replicated in OFBiz?
--- David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
This is an interesting topic from an infrastructure
perspective. It
sounds like there is some suggestion of
incorporating it into the
framework and moving to it as the standard UI layer
tool set...
Has anyone done any conversions of existing OFBiz
artifacts to
compare size and complexity and establish some
prospective tools or
patterns for integration with other pieces and such?
Actually, from a
PoC perspective once could do the same things we did
early on with
OFBiz: define the artifacts and make sure we can
define everything we
want, and then build the engine behind them. In
other words we
defined XSD (or DTD in the early days) files, and
some text XML files
based on them to develop towards and support. These
were written to
replace specific pages, usually picking a more
complicated one. For
example, the first form widget form in OFBiz was the
EditProduct form
with the two columns and such, and that form
definition existed even
before the form widget engine.
This sort of PoC effort would be the first step for
anything like this.
-David
On Aug 4, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Leon Torres wrote:
Yeah we've been looking into this kind of thing
and talking to some
people about Rails and OFBiz. This is actually a
huge topic which
might be better discussed at a conference or
something.
- Leon
Chris Howe wrote:
Si and Leon and others,
I just started to look at some Ruby on Rails
stuff and
was curious as to your impressions of what
aspects of
OFBiz could not be replicated in RoR. Or is it
possible to get off Java entirely? How much of
OFBiz
could be entirely reused vs. how much would just
be
translating templates, etc?
