Samuel Benz wrote:
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
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OFBIZ is big and can be hard to learn, but it can be learned even by
people who have no prior programming backgrounds (like me!) I wouldn't
worry too much about having limited Java experience--OFBIZ does a lot of
that stuff for you, so you don't have to get too level with Java to
write pretty fancy applications.
The alternative of course is to go on your own and write it from
scratch. I think the problem you'll have is that a small team such as
yours could never match the pace of an open source project like ours or
a big commercial vendor competing in your market. By building off our
project and getting involved it, you can eventually deliver a lot more
value to your users.
Also, I'd think given what you're talking about, it might be improving
or implementing a new user interface, but you'd be using the other
applications as well, not just the framework.
