Paul I took the time to scan your link, but did not get into an in-depth perusal of it. At first glance, it is a fine overview, but in my opinion, not nearly complete enough for a new user. For this, I think Ruth's book is much more useful.
I do like your decision to replace all the minilang services. I too have slowly been replacing them for my installations. On the other hand, I really like minilang screens for simple backend stuff. You can write them much more quickly than ftl so long as they are simple. I also really like your new ftl macros. I have been using the opentaps macros for a long time and I think yours are significantly better especially in their granularity and ability to support more display device types. I think Obbiz would greatly benefit if you considered contributing them back to the Obbiz project. Having said that, I am not sure there would be a consensus on the shift back to ftl. So many of the active contributors seem to like minilang. I think that is one of the reasons Si Chen started opentaps. I completely missed seeing that Ruth had moved on. That is sad. But hopefully, she is still getting royalities for her work. Skip -----Original Message----- From: Paul Piper [mailto:p...@ilscipio.com] Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 1:53 AM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: Ofbiz Cookbook Hi Skip, thanks for sharing. I completely agree with you on your opinion about the books. We did a project together with Ruth before she left the community and I said before that I think it is a shame that the community wasn't able to value her contribution for what it is. Just like Rupert Howell's book, which i can also highly recommend, the book is the standard textbook for all new ofbiz developers and we recommend it to all customers we train. Perhaps you would also be interested in checking out the Scipio documentation: http://www.scipioerp.com/community/developer/architecture/ We try to maintain an easy to understand guideline that should be suitable for beginners. I would love to hear your feedback on it. Regards, Paul -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Ofbiz-Cookbook-tp4690647p4690671.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
