Re: What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-27 Thread Adam Heath
David E Jones wrote: > Thanks for this Adam. These are great points maven versus ant. It may be possible to do what I want with maven. But the fact that in *all* cases where I have had the horror of seeing maven used by a project, they have *all* been network based, required maven installed in th

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2010-02-27 Thread Christopher Snow
Please excuse my ignorance... If the ofbiz src tree was split up into new svn projects (e.g. entity engine, service engine, etc) , would ant be able to easily manage the dependencies between each project? If maven doesn't do the job of managing dependencies very well, what about ivy? Many

Re: What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-27 Thread David E Jones
Thanks for this Adam. These are great points maven versus ant. -David On Feb 27, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Adam Heath wrote: > Christopher Snow wrote: >> Hi Adam, >> >> What would be your preferred tool for managing the builds if we made >> ofbiz more modular? > > Must be stand-alone. Can't depend

Re: What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-27 Thread Adam Heath
Christopher Snow wrote: > Hi Adam, do you know of any tools available that meet these requirements? Um, I may be going out on a limb here, but ant? > > Adam Heath wrote: >> Christopher Snow wrote: >> >>> Hi Adam, >>> >>> What would be your preferred tool for managing the builds if we made >>> o

Re: What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-27 Thread Christopher Snow
Hi Adam, do you know of any tools available that meet these requirements? Adam Heath wrote: Christopher Snow wrote: Hi Adam, What would be your preferred tool for managing the builds if we made ofbiz more modular? Must be stand-alone. Can't depend on anything from the network. Netw

Re: What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-27 Thread Adam Heath
Christopher Snow wrote: > Hi Adam, > > What would be your preferred tool for managing the builds if we made > ofbiz more modular? Must be stand-alone. Can't depend on anything from the network. Network resources may not be available in all cases. Plus, network resources can become stale, and g

Re: What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-27 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Bruno Busco wrote: > This is what I am also trying to do. > Just have the possibility to *remove* all the applications but party > and content from an OFBiz installation and have it working. I think this has to be done into two separate and independent steps: 1) fram

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-27 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Christopher Snow wrote: > Me too, however with the current dependencies ,framework effectively depends > on applications anyway. And in fact we have to fix this. Jacopo > > Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >> I am against moving party in the framework; we can discuss if

Re: What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-27 Thread Christopher Snow
Hi Adam, What would be your preferred tool for managing the builds if we made ofbiz more modular? Many thanks, Chris Adam Heath wrote: Christopher Snow wrote: Hi Adam, I too would like to see a more modular ofbiz (e.g. maven + osgi), but that is a big step. For example, it would be gr

Re: What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Adam Heath
Christopher Snow wrote: > Hi Adam, > > I too would like to see a more modular ofbiz (e.g. maven + osgi), but > that is a big step. For example, it would be great if people wanting to > use just the entity engine could just download the entity engine jars > and be up and running. Ew! You said th

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2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Snow
Hi Adam, I too would like to see a more modular ofbiz (e.g. maven + osgi), but that is a big step. For example, it would be great if people wanting to use just the entity engine could just download the entity engine jars and be up and running. However, what Bruno and I are proposing is just

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2010-02-26 Thread Adam Heath
Adam Heath wrote: > Bruno Busco wrote: >> This is what I am also trying to do. >> Just have the possibility to *remove* all the applications but party >> and content from an OFBiz installation and have it working. >> Please stop thinking about moving things in or out of the framework. >> >> The fra

Re: What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Adam Heath
Bruno Busco wrote: > This is what I am also trying to do. > Just have the possibility to *remove* all the applications but party > and content from an OFBiz installation and have it working. > Please stop thinking about moving things in or out of the framework. > > The framework, if you like how i

Re: What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Busco
This is what I am also trying to do. Just have the possibility to *remove* all the applications but party and content from an OFBiz installation and have it working. Please stop thinking about moving things in or out of the framework. The framework, if you like how it is right now, can stay there

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2010-02-26 Thread BJ Freeman
there is a ant build target create-admin-user-login do a ant -p Ruth Hoffman sent the following on 2/26/2010 12:56 PM: > Hi Chris: > If user management is included in the following, then I agree. I don't > think I've ever created an application that didn't have at least an > administrative user.

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Chris: If user management is included in the following, then I agree. I don't think I've ever created an application that didn't have at least an administrative user. If not I'd add (basic) user management. Ruth Christopher Snow wrote: Hi Anil, I believe a standalone application develop

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Adam Heath
Christopher Snow wrote: > Hi Anil, > > I believe a standalone application development framework should have all > the functionality a developer needs to create an application, i.e. > > - persistence > - services > - presentation tier > - reporting > - help > - security management > - job schedule

What is ofbiz? was Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Adam Heath
You haven't gone far enough. Stop thinking about just what you want. Or just what Bruno wants. Or what the guy from Timbuktu wants. Think about what we all want. Namely, the ability to pick and choose the parts of ofbiz that we want to make use of. Arbitrary assignments of components into pa

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2010-02-26 Thread Anil Patel
In fact Yes, I think birt should not be in framework as well. But its ok, because a) because it does not really have any database dependency b) Its third party library integration so the code in Ofbiz framework will not change as much. Ideally, Yes I will like it to be out of the framework :)

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Snow
Hi Anil, I suppose you could argue that birt should be a plugin too? Not every app needs reporting and birt does add a lot of overhead. Cbeers, Chris Anil Patel wrote: Chris, I agree with your list except for help. Help system should be a plugin that can be added to system. Delivery of Hel

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2010-02-26 Thread Anil Patel
Chris, I agree with your list except for help. Help system should be a plugin that can be added to system. Delivery of Help should be controlled by screen design. Thanks and Regards Anil Patel HotWax Media Inc Find us on the web at www.hotwaxmedia.com or Google Keyword "ofbiz" On Feb 26, 2010, a

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Snow
Me too, however with the current dependencies ,framework effectively depends on applications anyway. Jacopo Cappellato wrote: I am against moving party in the framework; we can discuss if a portion of the content should be moved there. Jacopo On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Anil Patel wrote:

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Snow
Hi Anil, I believe a standalone application development framework should have all the functionality a developer needs to create an application, i.e. - persistence - services - presentation tier - reporting - help - security management - job scheduler - audit trail Cheers, Chris Anil Patel w

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2010-02-26 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
I am against moving party in the framework; we can discuss if a portion of the content should be moved there. Jacopo On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Anil Patel wrote: > I rather see it differently. > Framework components should core ones that compare to similar things out > there. I will rather h

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Anil Patel
I rather see it differently. Framework components should core ones that compare to similar things out there. I will rather have help move out of framework instead of moving content and Party into framework. I think we should do /framework, /baseapps, /applications We can put all those core com

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Scott Gray
I asked if you had looked at the patch because it cannot be committed as is since it will disable all components except for the framework ones and party + content. The only piece that has a place in a framework only release is the framework, anything else will get constant push back because it

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Snow
Yes, I have looked at the patch. I am in favor of it. My reasoning: "help" would be important functionality for the framework. Help depends on some content tables which in turn depend on some party components. By moving entities in a similar hack, I have managed to get a standalone framewo

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Scott Gray
Have you even looked at the patch? It is certainly not intended to be committed. Are you in favor of the patch? If so, could you please explain why you would like to see the party and content application components included in a framework only release? Thanks Scott HotWax Media http://www.h

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Adam Heath
Christopher Snow wrote: > Bruno's question: > > "So could we please review the patch? > Does it make sense?" > > If there are no major objections, then I guess he will commit it? See my comments in the issue.

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Snow
Bruno's question: "So could we please review the patch? Does it make sense?" If there are no major objections, then I guess he will commit it? Scott Gray wrote: What exactly are you requesting that people vote on? Regards Scott HotWax Media http://www.hotwaxmedia.com On 26/02/2010, at 12:15

Re: first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Scott Gray
What exactly are you requesting that people vote on? Regards Scott HotWax Media http://www.hotwaxmedia.com On 26/02/2010, at 12:15 PM, Christopher Snow wrote: > Bruno has a patch that will allow us to run ofbiz standalone - without > breaking anything! > > This is a small but important step t

first steps to framework independence! vote here!

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Snow
Bruno has a patch that will allow us to run ofbiz standalone - without breaking anything! This is a small but important step towards framework independence... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3505 Many thanks in advance, Chris