Good morning, fellow developers.
It is now almost 15 years ago i started with OFBiz. I always followed
new technology developments and used them when they became usable in a
production environment. That is why i joined OFBiz early. I also
proposed years ago to go from svn to git that now finally is approved
for OFBiz. I also proposed to replace the OFBiz framework with
Moqui.org, yes I know a much bigger change but believe me, that will
also happen one time for you.
We now support Moqui for about a year and the main reason we switched
over is the excellent REST interface Moqui has. This allows you to have
a user interface fully independent from Moqui, yes a website or a mobile
application just using the data from Moqui via REST. All screen
rendering is now done with for example the vue.js framework using
javascript in the client, not using ftl at all, improving the user
interface experience dramatically. So all templates and the rendering is
in the client making it completely static and can be loaded from cdn
networks.
My advise? If you want to extend the life of OFBiz implement a REST
interface quickly...or copy it over from Moqui, no problem, the license
allows it.
Regards,
Hans Bakker,
CEO antwebsystems.com