Hi, Openbravo is planning to implement a new User Interface in the upcoming releases. As part of the process to implement this new User Interface, we are selecting a UI/ajax framework. This post is to inform the community and to ask for feedback/experience with the four frameworks we have selected as potential candidates.
The past few months several new UI concepts have been designed and discussed with the community. The goal for the next release is to incorporate these concepts in a new Openbravo UI. For more information on next generation Openbravo UI concepts see these links: http://openbravouxlab.blogspot.com/ http://forge.openbravo.com/plugins/espforum/browse.php?group_id=100&forumid=886353 The next step for the development team is to choose a UI technology which allows us to implement these new concepts. The process we are following is described here: http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/ERP/3.00/Projects/UI_Technology As part of this process we have looked at 22 libraries/frameworks. The aspects we looked at: - community activity: forum size, forum activity, articles/blogs/hits - architecture (client-server): does it fit in the envisioned architecture of Openbravo - development approach: javascript, tag based, etc., should fit in a dynamically/runtime generated UI - target usage: on a scale between website-enhancing to RIA - maturity/professionalism of the project: releases, test approach, customers/users, documentation, books etc. - component/widget set: in both breadth and depth, targeted at administrative systems With these aspects in mind we have selected four projects which are potential candidates for being used as the basis for the new Openbravo UI (in alphabetical order): - dojo: http://dojotoolkit.org/ - extjs: http://extjs.com/ - jquery: http://jquery.com/ - yui: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ Note: although extjs is in this list, there are potential blocking issues related to their licensing policy. With this post I want to ask the community (you!) for feedback and your experience with any of these technologies. Feel free to share successes but also obstacles you encountered when using these technologies! To centralize the comments/feedback it would be great if you can react in the original post here: http://forge.openbravo.com/plugins/espforum/view.php?group_id=100&forumid=886353&topicid=6995962 Based on the community feedback and further analysis we want to get down to a list of 2 technologies which we will prototype. Thanks! gr. Martin -- With Regards, Martin Taal Openbravo M: +31 6 288 48 943 @: [email protected] Skype: martintaal Openbravo Headquarters: P: +34 93 27 25 947 F: +34 93 27 25 905 Address: Edificio Slan, Planta 2a, Landaben, Calle J, 31012 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain Mailing address: PO Box 5117, 31010 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Openbravo-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbravo-development
