Scott Gray wrote: > The main question in my mind is what does all this mean for OFBiz? > Obviously because webslinger is currently in the framework you > envisage it playing some sort of role in the ERP applications, but > what exactly? We see knowledge sharing as an important ERP function. > I think I understand better now why Ean and yourself were somewhat negative > towards the possibility of a jackrabbit integration, do you see this as some > sort of alternative? > Some sort of alternative, though I would see Jackrabbit more as an alternative to our modded CommonsVFS+Lucene. I'm mostly antagonistic to a database oriented content management approach because I don't feel like any of the tools out there (including Jackrabbit) realistically deal with the situation of having a long-term development project running in tandem with a live server. All of the database driven tools (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Plone, Alfresco, LifeRay) fail to deliver a solution for distributed revision control. For me, that seems like a critical weakness because I've been through more than a few overhauls of a large corporate information management infrastructure. Work goes on in parallel both in the live server and the development environment. If you don't have tools to manage the process of merging those streams of information then you are in for a tough time.
Jackrabbit is very interesting, mostly because it extends the filesystem concept to blend more seamlessly with what the web seems to "want" its filesystem to look like. I think it would be fully possible for us to replace CommonsVFS with Jackrabbit but I'm not entirely clear that it is worth it. Any CMS that cannot present itself as a vanilla filesystem is fundamentally hampered by the unfortunate reality is that most programs expect to work with that model. I suppose it depends on where you want to be inconvenienced. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO e...@brainfood.com 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com
