Karl, I am working on a team of 3 in my group and I would suggest checking out the following site to get started, http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/tutorials.php The learning curve is heavy but it provides just about anything you may need. The hard part is customizing it.
On 1/9/07, Karl Martindale-Vale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi guys, I've been lurking on the ofbiz-user list and in the archives for about a week in an attempt to assess whether OFBiz is the right tool for our job and was hoping to get your opinion 'from the inside'. We're a fairly small point-of-sale company based in Australia and are in the initial stages of developing a 'head office' package. The primary functions of this package would be: - Administration of product records, - promotion admin, - loyalty program admin, and - reporting. I've watched the FrameworkIntro_* movies and had a play with the opentaps release (& installed eclipse/wtp) and believe that I have a basic understanding of the way the major components of ofbiz fit together. If we were to use the ofbiz framework I think that in order to create a more visually rich and responsive UI than a markup based interface is capable of producing I'd like to implement a compiled UI in something like Swing, Swing&XUI, SWT, .Net running under Mono, or GTK. I see from David's May '03 posting to OFBiz-Devel (http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/dev/2003-May/002411.html) that we'd be interacting primarily with the Service Engine as our interface to the framework. Given that the size of the development team would be 2-3 and our Java experience is currently fairly basic, and what we'd initially like to use the framework for, in your opinion would making use of the ofbiz framework (and traversing its learning curve) be a more feasible alternative to to starting 'from scratch'? Thanks for your time, Karl Martindale _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Fresh jobs daily. Stop waiting for the newspaper. Search now! www.seek.com.au http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fninemsn%2Eseek%2Ecom%2Eau&_t=757263760&_r=Hotmail_EndText_Dec06&_m=EXT
