Java was chosen because of its popularity as a language, its stability, typed language features, portability, and ability to integrate with other diverse languages when packaged up as an api. There are also a lot of libraries that we can piggy back on to make coding easier (hibernate, spring, etc)
The fingerprint scanner was written by a group in India. IIRC, they chose C++ for raw processing speed of the fingerprint algorithm. The Java version just wasn't performing fast enough with a database of millions. Are you referring to the Sync Module? https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Sync+Module The only group I know of that uses it in production is PIH in Rwanda with their 8-10 different sites, but there are probably more. AMPATH in Kenya will be rolling it out soon to their 25 remote clinics. FYI: It would be better if you put these questions into three different emails with proper subjects for each. There are a lot of people watching the mailing list for only topics that they are interested in or have a contribution towards, burying multiple topics in one general email subject means that potentially all will be ignored/lost. Ben On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Mean Reatanak Sambath <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > I got lose to answer a background information "why people select JAVA for > OpenMRS development? Why not PHP? And Why fingerprint scan work in C++ not > JAVA? > Any place that experience in using multiple place of OpenMRS at same time > (real time data sybchning?) > > Thanks...Sambath > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mhawila >> Ahmedi >> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:32 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [OPENMRS-DEV] Unable to see search box using OpenMRS 1.6.3 >> >> Dear all, >> I am using OpenMRS 1.6.3 on Windows 7 platform. But search box is not >> displayed in all pages that is supposed to appear. It is strange however >> because the system works fine when using version 1.8.0. Moreover even >> 1.7.0 displays the same abnormality. I have tried to search the archive but I >> have not seen anything that can be of help. >> >> Regards, >> -- >> Mhawila Ahmedi, >> >> >> _________________ >> >> University Computing Centre - 'Professionalism, Customer Care and >> Technological foresight' >> >> _________________________________________ >> >> To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to >> [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the >> body (not the subject) of your e-mail. >> >> [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel- >> l] > > _________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to > [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not > the subject) of your e-mail. > > [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l] > _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l]
