Hi Ruth,

I wouldn't even say it's difficult to figure out the existing applications. It is very time consuming. Without high level overview documentation, the only way to understand the existing apps is to go through each line of code.

I really think there should be a process documentation effort - of which I'm willing to give my time...

Cheers,

Chris

Ruth Hoffman wrote:
Hi Chris:
I think you are spot on. Once you understand the basics, it is relatively easy to develop data driven web applications with the OFBiz framework. I've been doing just that for several years now. All that "nasty" database stuff is taken care of - leaving me free to develop real world solutions in short order.

What is much more difficult is to figure out how to use the existing applications to solve real world problems. I'm still struggling with that.

Regards,
Ruth
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Chris Snow wrote:
Hi Marc,

This is one of the reasons I have been pushing for and independent ofbiz framework. It's is relatively quick to learn how to develop standalone apps in ofbiz. I believe with ofbiz, you can develop small applications as quickly as you can in MS Access - with a lot more benefits when using ofbiz (multiuser, web enabled, extendable, etc).

However, in my opinion, it takes years of experience to be able to use the existing apps (partymgmt, ordermgmt, etc).

Cheers,

Chris


Marc Morin wrote:
It's taken us about 6-12 months to get proficient in ofbiz.... mostly because we mostly "resisted" doing things the ofbiz way....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Crum" <adrian.c...@yahoo.com>
To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 7:04:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: does anyone know ofbiz?

--- On Fri, 1/22/10, Chris Snow <sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
Is it possible for one person to have a deep understanding
of how ALL of the components in ofbiz work?  It is
vast.  I have found that the only way to tackle the
problem is to break in into chucks: the framework, party
management, work effort...  At the rate I'm going I
will have figured it all out in 5 years time.

It took me about 6 months to wrap my head around OFBiz. I have been using it for 6 years and there are things that I'm still learning about it.

-Adrian







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