David, We are interested in this project. Let us know the best way to start playing with the framework and see how we could use it. We do a lot of custom applications and moqui sounds like a framework that could be used for this.
Thanks again for your efforts. Brett On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:09 AM, David E Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > I still don't know if or how all of this will turn out, but here is the > latest on the changes I've been wanting to make in the OFBiz Framework, but > gave up on doing directly in OFBiz about a year and a half ago. The > redesigned framework is a separate project that is now in beta (I just did > the release today): > > http://www.moqui.org/ > > The Moqui Framework is now feature-complete for the planned feature set of > the 1.0 version. There are details about this in the release notes, > including everything in this release and the previous 3 releases, plus a > list of features not to be included in 1.0. > > At this point the framework is far enough along that it is a clear > demonstration of the changes that I would like to see in OFBiz, but that are > difficult to do in a project with such a mature community and a large set of > software that depends on it. Some of the main things are how the security > and authorization are done, how the API is organized, the separation between > framework and non-framework runtime artifacts, the deployment model > (described in detail in the RunDeploy.txt file in the project), the way > templates are used for simple-methods (XML Actions in Moqui) and the > form/screen/etc widgets (XML Screens, Forms in Moqui), and how the web > "controller" in OFBiz could be combined with screens and made hierarchical > to introduce a lot of flexibility and far better organization of > applications (less files open, easier to find things, automatic menu > creation, per-used menu items/subscreens, and much more). > > Now that the beta is out the next step is to start building more real-world > applications with it (so far the framework just has an example app and some > basic tools built on it), and those will act as test cases as well. I don't > have any intention to create another project like OFBiz that is a > comprehensive ERP/CRM/etc/etc/etc system, and instead I'm hoping those will > be separate project. > > However, I am working on a project to act as a basis for various > applications that will share the same data model, common services, and > derive from a common set of stories too. This project is called "Mantle". To > see how this all fits together, check out the home page on the moqui.orgsite > which has a diagram that includes these things. There is also a link to > the github repository that has the Mantle UDM (Universal Data Model) > progress so far. > > Back to the first comment: I don't know all of this will turn out. In a way > it would be interesting to have OFBiz migrate to use these things, but that > may not be of interest to very many in the community, so I won't be too > surprised if that never happens. I've already heard from a couple of people > who have proposed this idea, and I know some others would probably be very > against it. > > On the other hand, if anyone is curious about such a thing, now it's > possible to get an idea of what it might look like by look at the Moqui > Framework and the example application and such. > > -David > > >
