Hi, I've been doing a little reading of previous posts in this forum in order to determine the requirements for a specialized OFBiz IDE (similar to NetWeaver for SAP). Since I am still new to this community, my observations might be wrong. However, as I see it, there are three main user groups in the OFBiz community: 1) framework developers, 2) application developers, and 3) application "customizers". The last group is probably the largest, because the typical use case of OFBiz seems to be to download, customize and deploy the standard OFBiz distribution. The two first groups seems to have a significant overlap since application development provides feature requests for the framework development.
I would appreciate some feedback on concrete tool requirements for the three groups: 1) framework developers - e.g., better profiling and performance measurements of base components 2) application developers - e.g., better editors for different artifacts, analysis tools to ensure consistency among XML files (such as checking whether a referenced entity in a minilang file actually exists), navigation tools, generators for boilerplate code (similar to Neogia) 3) application "customizers" - e.g., visual editors for frontend customization, easy configuration, simple mapping from user requirements to actual ofbiz components Please contribute to this list, if you have any ideas. -- Anders
