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Hi Jon

Thanks for the tips.

>> If I can, I'd like to make the changes general enough that at least
>> some of them can be incorporated into the main code base.
> 
> You are working full-time for a company? :) 

Yes. My company. :-) Though I'm not the only employee.

> I don't have that luxury. I
> just build the codes needed by my clients, and leave it at that.
> Massaging those codes to fit into OFBiz will cost me too much. Many
> parts in OFBiz are not neatly structured enough (need further
> refactoring) to plug in enhancements. That particular Java file you
> mentioned is one of them.

In many areas this is what I also will be doing, because I just can't
justify the time to make the functionality general. However I figure
that if a change I make can be incorporated into the main code base,
then I'll benefit as upgrading will be easier. Also, if something I
write has a bug (heaven forbid!) that someone else finds and fixes, or
if the functionality is extended further by someone else, I benefit from
that too. So it is worth me making some effort to make my code good
enough to be integrated.

> Some parts of OFBiz are truly truly neat, though. 

Yes, I'm noticing. OFBiz is a great system. I'm impressed with the
careful design and amount of thought that has obviously gone into it. It
has its warts, but what software doesn't? At least, being open source, I
can do something about the warts.

Cheers,
Anne.

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