Thanks Raj, I added your propostion in the section Services exposed as RESTful web services
Jacques On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:29 AM, rajbsa...@yahoo.com wrote > I like this idea and I have been working for a while for the front end > e-commerce sites. We have been using custom themes based on Bootstrap > and backbone.js and AngularJS. You can see this in action at > http://www.thecharmworks.com/. > > For the back office application, I would like to see all services > exposed as RESTful web services and client side UI using a MVC framework > such as AngularJS with responsive CSS framework such as Bootstrap. > Client side UI will mainly use the Ajax requests and AngularJS MVC takes > care of updating the UI. > > Thanks, > > Raj > > > On Monday, January 06, 2014 7:09 PM, e...@brainfood.com wrote >>> I agree that we should migrate FTL templates to ofbiz widgets for the sake >>> of consistency throughout the interfaces. However, I do have to say that >>> I would not use form widgets to develop a customer facing site. At this >>> point, Brainfood is pretty much at a consensus that we do not want to do >>> "page template" oriented development in the server at all. When you look at >>> applications like Google Maps it becomes clear that the "send post, alter >>> state, regenerate and send page" workflow is incredibly limited. The future >>> seems to look a lot more like applications written in Javascript that >>> generate HTML directly in the browser. >>> >>> So, for us, the important feature is the JSON-RPC interface for this remote >>> applications. It would be genuinely interesting if we could write a client >>> side form widget interpreter that would delegate generation of the interface >>> to the client side and then supply the "action" interface via AJAX. That is >>> something we would be very interested in. >>> >>> Refactoring the widget generation code to support greater modularity in the >>> HTML >>> could be another target of such an effort. I made some modest efforts >>> towards >>> a Bootstrap based OFBiz theme and I found it difficult to make progress >>> with the >>> current setup. >>> >>> ----- "Gavin Mabie" <kwikst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> It appears that the citing of Drupal/WordPress/Magento solicited quite >>>> a >>>> lot of comment. It's a side issue really and whether some houses >>>> prefer to >>>> integrate existing solutions is besides the point. More importantly, >>>> most >>>> commentators would agree that theme developement in Ofbiz does require >>>> more >>>> attention. The vast majority of threads on this ML focuss on backend >>>> business rules and processes. That in itself is not a problem - if >>>> you >>>> regard Ofbiz as a Framework only. It only means that, as far as >>>> frameworks >>>> go, we need a better framework for theming as well. This will >>>> encourage >>>> more participation from developers who have more of a front-end >>>> orientation. I would support a drive towards better "themeability" >>>> in >>>> 2014. In this regard I would like to suggest that we take a look at >>>> the >>>> VisualThemeResource entity which currently is currently poorly >>>> defined. >>>> >>>> Gavin
