Hi Christopher, That is very interesting. Do you have any concrete examples of features (possibly from the framework the you mention) that you would like to see in an ofbiz ide?
-- Anders > Anders, > > For me as an (newbie) application developer, I would love to see ofbiz > have an application development environment like Rails and RadRails. > > Rails has a number of generators for boilerplate code (scaffolding), and > RadRails (eclipse based IDE) integrates nicely with Rails providing > additional benefits like code completion, API help, database tools, > console for running rails code and server integration (see the > screencasts on radrails.org). > > Cheers ... > > > > > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 21:18 -0500, Anders Hessellund wrote: >> 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 >> >> > >
