I think this is a great idea. I use the Clarity CA toolset that does what your proposing and they use it as a big sales feature. It allows functional (not technical) not technical consultants to customize the application.
Would some screenshots be useful as an example? Cheers, Chris On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 20:09 -0700, Chris Howe wrote: > 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? >
