Re: RFC: Properties Idea

2007-12-11 Thread Adrian Crum
David, Thank you very much for your comments. I agree with the idea of data model extensions designed around a particular configuration option. I was thinking more along the lines of having some of the system-level configuration options stored in an entity - so we could have a basic system

Re: RFC: Properties Idea

2007-12-11 Thread David E Jones
On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Adrian Crum wrote: I was thinking more along the lines of having some of the system- level configuration options stored in an entity - so we could have a basic system configuration UI. Of course some things could be left out - like the cache settings you

Re: RFC: Properties Idea

2007-12-10 Thread David E Jones
This is an interesting approach, but very different from what I had imagined and what has been discussed (though not in a lot of detail). Rather than creating a generic structure I'd rather continue with the existing pattern of designing data model extensions according to the nature of

RFC: Properties Idea

2007-12-07 Thread Adrian Crum
Now that OFBiz supports XML properties files, I've started thinking about David's comment that configuration settings and such should be kept in the database - and how to add that capability to the UtilProperties class bag of tricks. Just like the XML properties file idea, I'd like to make it