Hi Gaetan,
kudos for your work on this and many thanks for your offer to contribute
the plugin to the OFBiz project!
In my view, it is not only helpful for newcomers but also of great help
for developers to navigate a complex project like OFBiz fast. It's a
great addition to the OFBiz ecosystem and might help new users to faster
learn OFBiz. I can image more features and it will surely help to
broaden the audience for OFBiz on the developer side.
In reference to the past comments on this, I do not think that this
plugin should stay where it is now and I would support to bring it into
the OFBiz ecosystem if the community also agrees.
ofbiz-tools, in my view, is not the right place for this project. It's a
collection of different scripts to ease development and hosting of OFBiz
and the plugin should not be mixed with it.
I think that it warrants it's own repository, in good company with the
main repos as well as ofbiz-tools and ofbiz-site. For this, I think it
has to be refactored to be in an org.apache.ofbiz.* package structure
and licensed within the Apache license. And, of course it would need
support and further maintenance.
Let's see what others in the community think about it.
Thanks,
Michael Brohl
ecomify GmbH - www.ecomify.de
Am 24.01.22 um 17:24 schrieb Michael Brohl:
Hi Gaetan,
great effort!
I'll respond in more detail this evening, sounds like this warrants
it's own OFBiz repository.
For the formal details, I think Jacopo also might have some insights.
Best regards,
Michael Brohl
ecomify GmbH - www.ecomify.de
Am 24.01.22 um 17:07 schrieb Gaetan:
Hello OFBiz community.
I thought about it, and i would like to contribute my plugin to the
OFBiz project, and to the APACHE foundation
I made a demo video which is viewable at this link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fLo04rnvc
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fLo04rnvc>
So I come to you for several reasons
first to see if someone would have any blocking reticences
and second i have a few questions :
* How would one commit this to the OFBiz Project ? Or where ?
* How would one request a tweet from OFBiz or Apache official social
networks ?
* How would one ask to maybe edit a page of the Apache OFBiz site ?
If there is anyone interested, i can propose a meeting to discuss
these topics
Thanks beforehand
Gaetan
OFBiz enthusiast and junior dev
On 26/11/2021 17:32, Gaetan wrote:
Thank you very much Jacques for your precious advice and your feedback.
I'll work on a pull request to ofbiz-tools (which i didn't know
about) or think about an other way to share the plugin, and see for
a demo video.
Once these are done properly, i can get started on other ideas you
gave me.
Gaetan
OFBiz enthusiast and junior dev
On 26/11/2021 17:05, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Le 26/11/2021 à 15:52, Gaetan a écrit :
Hello OFBiz community,
A few weeks ago, we made an announcement for an IDEA plugin for
OFBiz.
Though we didn't get any return on it, we'd like to insist on what
this may bring to the community.
It was designed to make OFBiz development easier, mostly for
junior OFBiz devs.
Seniors have their own habits for navigation towards service,
entity, or file locations, but for a junior (such as me) it can be
difficult at first.
We made this as the tool I'd have liked to have when I began
working with ofbiz.
For example let's see this case (from
`ContentManagmentServices.java`):
```java
Map<String, Object> thisResult =
dispatcher.runSync("createContent", contentContext);
if (ServiceUtil.isError(thisResult) ||
ServiceUtil.isFailure(thisResult)) {
return
ServiceUtil.returnError(UtilProperties.getMessage(resource,
"ContentContentCreatingError", UtilMisc.toMap("serviceName",
"persistContentAndAssoc"), locale), null, null, thisResult);
}
```
For a junior, it might be unclear where to find the definition of
the `createContent` service.
The plugin allows you to simply `CTRL+Click` on the service name
to navigate towards the definition.
As a bonus, you can even `CTRL+Click`the name of the label and
navigate to the property definition.
The same goes for entity name (and we plan to add a quick doc
popup for fields contained in the entity definition).
We really think this has the potential to soften the framework's
first impression of complexity that some people might feel.
Knowing that a tool exists to help you build with OFBiz could help
a lot.
The idea is to get feedback of the interest for the community and
to eventually contribute it into Apache OFBiz repository.
Is there a place to find OFBiz related tools, or should we let it
in Github as it is
(https://github.com/Nereide-lab/idea-ofbiz-plugin)?
Gaetan,
OFBiz junior dev and enthusiast.
Hi Gaetan,
It sounds like a great improvement for InteliJ users. Notably, as
you mention, new comers.
There is an official tools repository*. It could be the place to
put this new tool to allow easy download, maybe not the best place
though.
But I think more should be done. It should be advertised using the
usual tools: blog, tweeter, maybe a Youtube demo, etc. (see the
official site**)
I ever think that a dedicated page on the site should be created,
or maybe a subpage of community, a word in the FAQ, etc.
This said I'm an Eclipse old timer and I can't give any feedback on
the tool itself ;)
* https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=ofbiz-tools.git and related
https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-tools
** https://ofbiz.apache.org/
Jacques
