Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-06 Thread Raj Saini
Last week, I integrate Eclipse RAP (http://www.eclipse.org/rap/) with OFBiz to tryout the the cool AJAX and OSGi stuff. The rapdemo application worked well. This could be a good alternative to the desktop rich client application (Of course not the default OFBiz UI). Thanks, Raj BJ Freeman

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-05 Thread BJ Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I agree with David. But if someone want to go to the trouble of doing the code I don't see why it can't be put in the jira for someone to use if they want to. Just as a heads up I use the current screens in my remote UI(java swing). my app reads the

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-05 Thread Bruno Busco
BJ, I am interested in better understand how the architecture you describe works. Is this a client-server architecture? I mean a java swing application running on the client that make requestes to the OFBiz server? Thank you, -Bruno 2009/2/5 BJ Freeman bjf...@free-man.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-05 Thread BJ Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 it is a combination applet/application that can be detached from a webpage and used Standalone. there is one module in it that communicates with ofbiz as you say client/server, but not in the traditional way. That is the one the is mostly updated.

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-05 Thread Bruno Busco
OK, now I see, thank you for explaining. 2009/2/5 BJ Freeman bjf...@free-man.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 it is a combination applet/application that can be detached from a webpage and used Standalone. there is one module in it that communicates with ofbiz as you say

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-04 Thread Bruno Busco
It seems opentaps is going to use GWT. Shouldn't we consider using it? -Bruno 2009/2/2 Jeroen van der Wal jvander...@stromboli.it Dear Harmeet, Your GWT approach sounds promising. Could you share more details with us on how you did it and perhaps supply some code? Thanks, -Jeroen On

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-04 Thread David E Jones
What for? -David On Feb 4, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Bruno Busco wrote: It seems opentaps is going to use GWT. Shouldn't we consider using it? -Bruno 2009/2/2 Jeroen van der Wal jvander...@stromboli.it Dear Harmeet, Your GWT approach sounds promising. Could you share more details with us on how

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-04 Thread Bruno Busco
Well... ...to have something similar to this in the OFBiz UI : http://opensourcestrategies.com/images/opentaps_gwt_demo.htm 2009/2/4 David E Jones david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com What for? -David On Feb 4, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Bruno Busco wrote: It seems opentaps is going to use GWT.

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-04 Thread Bruno Busco
...and GWT is Apache licensed ! 2009/2/4 Bruno Busco bruno.bu...@gmail.com Well... ...to have something similar to this in the OFBiz UI : http://opensourcestrategies.com/images/opentaps_gwt_demo.htm 2009/2/4 David E Jones david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com What for? -David On Feb 4, 2009,

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-04 Thread David E Jones
On Feb 4, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Bruno Busco wrote: ...and GWT is Apache licensed ! That does make is easier to include... but isn't really a reason to use it... ;) 2009/2/4 Bruno Busco bruno.bu...@gmail.com Well... ...to have something similar to this in the OFBiz UI :

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-02-02 Thread Jeroen van der Wal
Dear Harmeet, Your GWT approach sounds promising. Could you share more details with us on how you did it and perhaps supply some code? Thanks, -Jeroen On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Bilgin Ibryam bibr...@iguanait.com wrote: Hi Harmeet, Can you show any demo or POC code for gwt integrated

Re: different approach to remote UI

2009-01-24 Thread Bilgin Ibryam
Hi Harmeet, Can you show any demo or POC code for gwt integrated with ofbiz? Do you need to compile and deploy javascipt files in ofbiz after every change in the screens? Thanks in advance Bilgin On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Harmeet Bedi wrote: There are a few libraries that are rich with

Re: different approach to remote UI

2008-12-03 Thread Jeroen van der Wal
This is great, we were about to start investigating this technolgy in relation to OFBiz. Looking forward to some demo code! Perhaps you can start a wikipage as well where we can discuss this. -Jeroen -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/different-approach-to-remote-UI

Re: different approach to remote UI

2008-12-03 Thread Sven Wesley
we can discuss this. -Jeroen -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/different-approach-to-remote-UI-tp20764673p20822623.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: different approach to remote UI

2008-12-01 Thread BJ Freeman
the main point of this approach is that the fields in the SWT/GWT is that they are generated on the fly from the screens received from ofbiz. no data is retained in the local App. But the tables, can be sortable, reformated for text, just like a regular SWT/GWT. The Shell as it were allows for

different approach to remote UI

2008-11-30 Thread BJ Freeman
Getting ready to change how my SWT(not google) interfaces gets data from Ofbiz. Goals: 1) allow the screens from ofbiz to drive the UI presentation. this allows the UI presentation to change as more data is added. 2) return data as a web page so there is no need to reprogram ofbiz. 3) allows

Re: different approach to remote UI

2008-11-30 Thread Harmeet Bedi
Why not use gwt to give same scope. We spent some time writing a complete UI layer on top of ofbiz in gwt to make ofbiz oriented towards a niche market. We changed approach as it was too much work to redo entire UI layer and we felt not the right approach. However we are still working to do

Re: different approach to remote UI

2008-11-30 Thread BJ Freeman
I believe you are equating GWT to Google Widget Tools. I am use GWT/SWT which is pure java and has a interface similar to the Eclipse IDE. Just as a note: this was my first project back in 2003 when I converted my clients from my Database system to ofbiz. Harmeet Bedi sent the following on

Re: different approach to remote UI

2008-11-30 Thread Bruno Busco
Very interesting Harmeet! Would be nice to have a working gwt ofbiz example to download and test locally. Could be possible for you to open a JIRA and put there detailed instructions and patches? Many thanks, Bruno 2008/12/1 Harmeet Bedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not use gwt to give same scope.