Something that has been mentioned in passing in previous threads is the
possibility of taking some of the OFBiz technologies and making them projects
of their own.
Two areas come to my mind that I think are good candidates for something like
that: The object type conversion framework and the temporal expressions. I kind
of had it in my mind they could be in their own library when I designed them.
Apache Commons has an abandoned conversion project and they are looking for
someone to adopt it. I could approach them about having our conversion
framework moved there. I believe Apache Commons would be a good home for the
Temporal Expressions as well.
What that would mean for us is we won't have to maintain the source code in the
project any more. Instead we will include jar files in the project - like any
other third party library.
What do you think? Are there any other OFBiz technologies that would be good
candidates for a stand-alone library?
-Adrian
