On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: > 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?
That sounds fine to me. Before getting started you might even want to ping the commons PMC to see how they would prefer for you to go about it. They might want you to isolate things as a library and then put it in a jira issue, or maybe they'll just welcome you as a committer for a certain part of the commons repository, or maybe they'll have another preference altogether... :) -David
