Karl,
BTW I just had a very quick look at your pdf documentation, sounds very
interesting !
Thanks to share !
Jacques
> Karl,
>
> I would recommend considering to use OFBiz Jira because of licence
> reasons ("joint works" are not eligible to be commited). Jonathon is
> able to explain that deeper to you if needed. You may also find
> discussions about this topic in Nabble (using "joint works" research).
>
> Thanks
>
> Jacques
>
> De : "Eilebrecht, Karl (Key-Work)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Hi Jonathan, hi Chris,
> >
> > thank you for your feedback (and also thank you for stiring up a
> hornet's nest ;-) )
> >
> > @Chris: I will try to answer your questions on the wiki page:
> >
>
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Key-Work+Ofbiz+Contribution+Proposal
> > I think this is more comfortable to retrace.
> >
> > @Jonathan: It's a great offer you made to take a look on our code
and
> to
> > evtl. merge it! What's the best way to provide the code to you?
> > I'll have to prepare some things before:
> > - for historical reasons we have a CVS repository and I
> > or one of my colleagues will set up an SVN client. Is it more
> convenient to
> > you to get an archive for the first review or would you recommend to
> > pump the sources into a repository? (where?)
> > - I already have added the Apache-Header (ASL) to all of the classes
> > we might contribute.
> > - I'll have to replace all tabs in the sources by 4 spaces.
> >
> > The rest I think should be not too complex, our last framework merge
> (with trunk) was on 2007-01-05, I don't think there are dramatic low
> level interface changes since then.
> >
> > We have already switched to Java 6 but all the classes to be
> contributed
> > are compileable with Java 1.4.
> >
> > Regards.
> > Karl
> >
> > BTW: During the next weeks there may be some "communication delays"
> because I'll not be in the office all the time. So please don't worry
if
> an email answer needs some days, thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Chris Howe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Gesendet: Samstag, 21. April 2007 08:33
> > An: [email protected]
> > Betreff: Re: Ofbiz Contribution Proposal
> >
> > Hi Karl,
> >
> > I had the opportunity today to quickly read over your introductions.
> > And must say it looks very interesting. Unfortunately, for my being
> > able to add input to the process, the improvements are in areas as
an
> > OFBiz user, that I take for granted and don't really get my hands
> dirty
> > with.
> >
> > I'll need to read over the transaction part again to ask any
> > intelligent questions, so I'll leave that for later.
> >
> > The custom SQL stuff looked very interesting and probably one of the
> > larger areas of benefit as more and more people are getting to the
> > point of locating bottlenecks in their applications. I was
wondering
> > if there might be some benefit in encapsulating the stored sql
> > statements it in an XML structure to be able to better take
advantage
> > of some META data/commenting that you discussed as well as potential
> of
> > some reusability and structuring of those custom statements.
> >
> > Perhaps, I need to reread the logging discussion again, and ask if
> this
> > is largely supported among other databases, but can't most of these
> > logging of the sql statements be handled in the database's log, if
> > configured to do so? I recall a mention that the developer may not
> > have sufficient access to the database server to ascertain the
> database
> > logs...is this case where the logging proposal would be more
> > beneficial?
> >
> > Thank you and Key-Work very much for bringing these enhancements
back
> > to the community!
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > --- "Eilebrecht, Karl (Key-Work)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > we use Ofbiz (mostly the entity engine) for over 2 years now.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Last year I had mail contact with David.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > He recommended to contribute changes to the Ofbiz Community
> regularly
> > > whenever possible and useful.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > It is a long time since this happened, but we finally convinced
our
> > > management to try
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > to contribute some changes and extensions to the Ofbiz community.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I read the FAQ and found out that especially complex changes might
> > > take a long time
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > and we may need some "community attendance".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > David told me to place our proposal at the Ofbiz-WIKI
> > >
> > > and to send a link to this mailing list.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This is our "trial balloon" to find out whether our changes and
> > > improvements
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > are welcome and how we could integrate them during the next
months.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I.e. the following extensions may also be interesting for other
> > > members
> > >
> > > of the community:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > * Advanced custom SQL integration
> > >
> > > * advanced sorting (locale, collation, natural sort)
> > >
> > > * completely refactored TransactionUtil with documentation and
> hints
> > >
> > >
> > > * on-demand "real"-sql-logging for ALL ofbiz statements
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I placed our stuff at
> > >
> >
>
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Key-Work+Ofbiz+Contribution+Proposal
> > >
> > > and hope one of the "Ofbiz gurus" will have a look at the attached
> > > stuff to make a statement.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Karl Eilebrecht
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
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> > >
> > >
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> >
