Very interesting discussion. What paul has mentioned is making perfect sense.
Best regards, Pranay Pandey HotWax Systems http://www.hotwaxsystems.com/ On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Paul Piper <p...@ilscipio.com> wrote: > Skip, > > I fear that you may be right with regards to minilang and the community, > though luckily with your own projects you can set your own standards. I > learned the hard way that minilang leads to more cluttered code and though > there are some benefits (the automapping of service maps or entity-auto for > creating crud services), I would strongly recommend anyone to rather invest > the time into proper java or groovy code. > > As for the use of widgets over ftl, perhaps it is worth noting that we > streamlined both for Scipio ERP. They share the same underlying set of > macros and will create the hence create the same HTML & classes as are > defined by your theme. So if people prefer to use widgets, they can. We > relied on this, when cleaning up & converting usable screens alot, as not > always it would make sense to transfer them to ftl. > > That being said, our goal is to further replace widgets by ftl logic as we > move along. For both minilang and widgets the reason on our end is that > neither technology is used anywhere outside of the ofbiz project and thus > adds to the overall learning-curve for newcomers. We much rather rely on > trusted alternatives that are easier to pick up for our project ;) > > Cheers, > Paul > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble. > com/Ofbiz-Cookbook-tp4690647p4690733.html > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
