On Feb 13, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Chandresh Turakhia wrote:
David & teamWe do need cross pollination between Apache projects - Lets bank on it. Open source works on Word of mouth.(1) ServiceMix - Fuse framework for services - James from Logicblaze might appreciate too.
IMO ServiceMix is a good alternative to Axis (and much more flexible) and would complement the Service Engine in OFBiz, but it would in no way would it be able to replace it.
(2) XAL - Let me talk to Bob from nexaweb, we can help you convert in mass to XAL-HTML . Think about it.
This looks like a nice tool and it would be great to use it going forward.
I don't like the idea of doing any sort of mass conversion because many pages simply don't need AJAX-like functionality, and it would be best to keep these as simple and multi-browser friendly as possible. Simplicity has other advantages too, like being easier to create and maintain in general.
(3) C-JDBC
This is a cool tool and great for use in production to be used as part of deployment efforts. I guess the best thing to do for this is document how to use it with OFBiz.
Ofbiz was way ahead of time...... But open source changes everything. Please understand the "drop-out" candidates due to lots of new learning.
I guess I'm missing something... how would use of these other projects reduce the learning curve for OFBiz?
In general the OFBiz framework is still unique in my opinion. From the beginning we have tried to use other open source projects wherever possible, but so many popular approaches are just no good for development and maintenance of large scale enterprise applications. If there were other open source projects we could lean on to eliminate framework tools, I'd totally push for it, but I have yet to see anything that would do the trick.
-David
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