For the past few months, I have been trying to put together some
technical documentation on ofbiz. I wanted the book to be detailed
and accurate, but I have found it difficult to get answers to a lot
of my questions on the mailing lists. I have found the whole process
very tiring, and wasteful of time as I am having to spend a lot of
effort working things out by looking through code. Maybe my emails
are too rude? Maybe the mailing lists aren't working (what about
lists for tech-user, functional-user, dev, docs)?
Eclipse BIRT have got it right. They have provided an excellent
users manual (field guide) and an excellent developers guide
(integrating and extending BIRT). That really ramps up your
knowledge of BIRT before looking at the code. With ofbiz, I've had
to pretty much dive straight into the code (and spend time weaving my
way through classpath loaders, container loaders, etc, before getting
to find what I needed).
Anyway, I've uploaded my scribbles if anyone finds it useful but an
awful lot of work is needed to finish it off.
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/download/attachments/1218/ofbiz_tech.pdf
See you in a few months ...
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