Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-08 Thread Christopher Snow
Hi Bruno, I think your plan makes a lot of sense and I also agree with your spreadsheet. We should work on the buildbot to report and enforce correct dependencies. Cheers, Chris Bruno Busco wrote: Chris, I think we should at first concentrate into enforcing a components dependency

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-07 Thread Christopher Snow
Also, splitting components down into small functional areas could have the benefit that if you just want WorkEffort core + parties, you wouldn't get the UI contributions from WorkEffort fixed assets. Development would be more difficult as you would be working across multiple files. However,

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-07 Thread Bruno Busco
Chris, I think we should at first concentrate into enforcing a components dependency hierarchy. This is my plan: We should select core or framework components that are the minimum must be installed in order to have a running OFBiz. Then we should say: additional component A can be installed if

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-07 Thread BJ Freeman
not sure if you look at the UI but there are permission you can use for which UI are available to which login via permissions and roles. as far as components you can hide a whole component in the web.xml and still have access to it. The artifact in webtools lets you see association with services,

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-07 Thread Bruno Busco
Hi BJ, sorry but what I meant for configuration is different from what I see you addressed in these jiras. For configuration I mean a defined set of components that are supposed to work without any other component in the installation. -Bruno 2010/2/7 BJ Freeman bjf...@free-man.net: both Hans

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-07 Thread BJ Freeman
for that use the datamodel books and look at the data in each application and see if it uses data from other applications. if it does there is a dependency. Bruno Busco sent the following on 2/7/2010 1:57 AM: Hi BJ, sorry but what I meant for configfoation is different from what I see you

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Chris Snow
Thanks for the feedback Adrian. Would it be worth me writing a tool that runs as part of the build process that reports on the dependencies? It could throw a warning/error when a new invalid dependency is checked in? Chris, Framework independence has been a goal for quite a while. There is

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Adrian Crum
A tool would certainly help. If such a tool was included in OFBiz, then it would have to be compatible with the Apache license. -Adrian --- On Sat, 2/6/10, Chris Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk wrote: From: Chris Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk Subject: Re: what a mess! is framework

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
We can probably start with something simple: add an ant task that simply builds the framework (applications and specialpurpose will be ignored) and then an ant task to run the framework only. This will require some minor tweaks to the base component loading mechanism, but it should be trivial.

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Chris Snow
Shall I raise a jira for this? Is there any documentation on the build and test process for ofbiz? e.g. does buildbot run ofbiz and run any tests? We can probably start with something simple: add an ant task that simply builds the framework (applications and specialpurpose will be ignored) and

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Adrian Crum
Yes, follow Jacopo's suggestion: create an ant task to build framework only, then run the framework only *shrug* I don't know what that means. Maybe have a Selenium task that checks to see if it actually runs on its own. I'm not real clear on how that would work, but it would definitely be

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Bruno Busco
This is something we discussed in the DEV ML: http://www.mail-archive.com/d...@ofbiz.apache.org/msg36156.html -Bruno 2010/2/6 Adrian Crum adrian.c...@yahoo.com: Yes, follow Jacopo's suggestion: create an ant task to build framework only, then run the framework only *shrug* I don't know what

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Christopher Snow
Hi Bruno, What are the current points of view on what should be included in the framework? Many thanks, Chris Bruno Busco wrote: This is something we discussed in the DEV ML: http://www.mail-archive.com/d...@ofbiz.apache.org/msg36156.html -Bruno 2010/2/6 Adrian Crum

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Bruno Busco
Chris, I think we have not moved very forward. We still have at least this page: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Framework-only+distribution and the page you have written: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Ofbiz+as+a+development+framework some comments in the

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Matt Warnock
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 23:42 -0800, Adrian Crum wrote: Chris, Framework independence has been a goal for quite a while. There is no disagreement that the framework should run on its own. The disagreements arise in what constitutes the framework. Let's assume for a moment that framework

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Bruno Busco
I have updated the framework-only confluence page with an excel sheet that we could use to track the dependecies issue down. http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/9373097/OFBIZ+COMP+DEPENDENCIES.xls?version=1 Hope this helps. It is not yet completed. Please fille free to

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Bruno Busco
The complete url for the confluence page is: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Framework-only+distribution 2010/2/6 Bruno Busco bruno.bu...@gmail.com: I have updated the framework-only confluence page with an excel sheet that we could use to track the dependecies issue down.

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-06 Thread Christopher Snow
Good work Bruno! I'm putting some thought into the dependency issues - I will provide some more feedback when I have a clearer view. However, my current view is this: 1) Developers should be able have a standalone framework 2) Developers should be able to install components to meet certain

what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-05 Thread Christopher Snow
I'm back to the process of working out how to get a standalone framework running based on trunk, but I have found that the dependencies have got out of hand (if I've understood the code right): Framework depends on Themes Themes depends on Content Content depends on Party The questions I'm

Re: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?

2010-02-05 Thread Adrian Crum
Chris, Framework independence has been a goal for quite a while. There is no disagreement that the framework should run on its own. The disagreements arise in what constitutes the framework. Let's assume for a moment that framework independence means running the components in the framework