I would like to add to what Scott already mentioned that minilang is not only difficult to debug but also overly verbose.
However, minilang exists and continues to be used I think because of the ctrl-space auto complete combined with XSD definitions for the statements. This makes it a DSL (not too pretty) and this is something that we did not provide a reasonable alternative for. Groovy makes a good candidate for an alternative DSL but we don't have something yet which is comprehensively documented with an easy auto-complete feature. This is very important for many developers I think. So we need to think of a good alternative On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Scott Gray <scott.g...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > I'm certainly no fan of minilang. I prefer something I can step through > with a debugger. > > Regards > Scott > > On 9/08/2016 20:55, "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. > > >
