I believe the original purpose of the Example component was to provide
a very basic application that new developers can analyze and learn
from. Running the ant task creates an empty application - there is
nothing to see there.
So, here is the use case: I need to train new developers to write an
OFBiz application, and I need a basic functional application to point
them to. The training could occur with a framework-only instance of
OFBiz.
-Adrian
Quoting Jacopo Cappellato <[email protected]>:
Q) framework/example and framework/exampleext: move to specialpurpose
Adrian would like to keep Example in the framework but slim it down
a lot to the essential (no form widgets examples, no Ajax examples,
no content examples etc...). Adrian would you please confirm if in
your vision the "example" application should document the layout of
a typical OFBiz component only? If yes, we could use the output of
the "ant create-component" task to document the best practice layout.
Jacques, Olivier would like to keep also the examples for the
various higher level features available to OFBiz applications.
I think that from the discussion it could emerge the following
solution to please everyone:
* keep the "example" component in the framework but slim it down to
the bare essential
* move the "exampleext" component to specialpurpose and migrate to
it all the extra features: this could also be used as a best
practice guide on how to extend a component from
hot-deploy/specialpurpose
I still think that it would be nicer to not bundle the "example"
component ootb to keep the framework cleaner: the example should be
downloaded separately (when we will have clear separation between
framework and the rest); this approach is similar to tomcat and its
example applications. But I don't have a strong opinion on this.
Jacopo
