I would like to see OFBiz use Apache Directory (http://directory.apache.org) for user permissions and security.
-Adrian --- On Fri, 10/24/08, Anil Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Anil Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Application framework technology set > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 4:36 PM > Hi, > I am having little difficulty to envision, What Ofbiz will > look like a > year or two down the road? > > I am personally satisfied with most of core technologies of > ofbiz > except for Form widget. Form widgets needs some > enhancements and even > those don't seem too difficult. Ofbiz framework > technologies made > development lot easy back in day when J2EE made things > impossible. > Now, 7 years down the road, Java enterprise application > development > tool set has changed a lot. What I am trying to get out of > this > thread is, What others in community think about it?" > > At different times, people have asked for ability to deploy > ofbiz on > application servers other then Tomcat, and in JEE > recommended style, > like create war or ear. I am curious what did these people > do? Did we > loose those potential ofbiz users!, Or Did they accept > whatever is > available and used ofbiz to solve their business problems. > > There are some JEE spec compliant technologies that we can > use instead > of home grown like, use > 1) Ice Faces (or Myfaces) instead of Form Widget > 2) JPA instead of Entity engine > 3) EJB instead of Service engine > 4) Integrate with Pluto for Portal server > 5) use third party Content management > > I think Ofbiz community is more interested in solving > business process > problems instead of building cool framework. We can focus > much more on > business problems if we utilize third party framework > technologies. > Some of the frameworks have excellent support from IDE > venders, great > books are available to learn, existing pool of skilled > developers and > many more goodies that we all know. > > Open source ERP space is growing. We need to think fresh. > Take a > break, Plan for next 5 years, Set our goals. All other > open source > ERP/CRM applications are doing it. There is no corporation > behind > ofbiz so its community's responsibility. Put a plan > together. Make it > easy for people to contribute. I am sure there are tons of > people in > community who want to contribute but don't know how. > > I am worried because, After working on minilang, screen > widgets, form > widgets, service engine, entity engine for so long I > almost forgot > Java/J2EE skills set. What if Ofbiz does not remain as > popular 5 years > down the road, How am I going to pay for my daughters > college expenses? > > This email is not intended to hurt anybody's feeling or > scare anybody. > Ofbiz is in great shape, I wanted to get people to speak up > and help > plan for future. > > Thanks and Regards > Anil Patel
