There was some talk a while back about creating an Eclipse plugin for OFBiz. How is that effort coming along? I ask because it is becoming easier and easier to use rich AJAX tools inside OFBiz that it may be within reach and reason to talk about creating a web application to develop OFBiz applications.
The benefit of an eclipse tool would be the ability to jump from say a screen to a referenced location. That seems like a rather straight forward task from a web application. Freemarker makes it rather simple to arrange an xml source so that you could focus on particular aspects of development. The only thing that I'm seeing that might make it difficult is the ability to load/unload services and components on the fly. What does the community think? Does the content manager tackle some of this? Would a ofbiz.home/development be appropriate? Is this a much larger task than it appears? Is there any interest?
