Hi Fabian, If you have reviewed the training videos http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/VideosFrameworkIntro.html you should have a good idea of when to use Screens/Widgets. These tools are good when you have to deal directly with fields of entities. But they don't allow to build sophisticated Web interfaces. So depending of your needs, you may use each alternately. Indeed JSPs combined with Regions in OFBiz are a bit deprecated.
Remember also that widgets are intended to be implemented not only for Web interface. For instance for the moment the POS application is using XUI (http://xui.sourceforge.net/) to manage the desktop interface. But in a future it's possible that widgets will be used instead. HTH Jacques From: "Fabian Gorsler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > after my data model is ready, I know how to use services, the next > question for me is which UI-layer to choose. I've read, listened to the > videos, reviewed apps (i.e. webtools), but the more I look for possible > ways, the more I loose a real oppinion what to use. > > - Freemarker, JPublish and BSH look nice and quite simple. > - Screens/Widgets seem to be a very good technic for RAD, but for me it looks as > if this wouldn't be as flexible as FTL/JP/BSH or JSPs. > - JSPs combined with Regions seem to be a very powerful and quick way > for developing with much flexibility. > > I hope you can understand my problem: There are so many possibilities, but > up to now I got no real opinion what I should use. The most important > thing is, that I don't know which way offers me all features OFBiz has. > Ok, it's possible to combine things, but I prefer a clear solution with > a strict way. I think for later developers it'll be much easier to > develop the app. > > Can anybody of you push me to the most effective way? At the moment I'm > thinking about using FTL/JP/BSH or JSPs, but... Yes, I can't get an real > opinion... > > TIA :) > > Best regards, > Fabian.
