Comparison of OFBiz and Moqui by prospective user

2015-08-31 Thread Al Byers
Just for your information: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quest-find-right-erp-ofbiz-vs-moqui-baig-mba-pmp-csp-csm-cssbb-

Re: Comparison of OFBiz and Moqui by prospective user

2015-08-31 Thread Al Byers
; > On Monday, August 31, 2015 6:57 AM, Adrian Crum < > adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> wrote: > > > "Post is no longer available" > > Perhaps you must be logged in to view it. > > Adrian Crum > Sandglass Software > www.sandglass-softw

Re: test email

2015-08-07 Thread Al Byers
Really BJ! We thought you was a toad! (1) And here I was thinking that I was now the old man of OFBiz. Glad to hear you are still around. Al Byers 1. O Brother, Where Art Thou? On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:12 PM, bj freeman bjf...@free-man.net wrote: sorry been trying to send emails for two years

Reposting from David Jones on Moqui

2014-03-07 Thread Al Byers
with current technology. -Adrian On 5/20/2013 4:04 PM, Al Byers wrote: Hi Carlos, I am just starting to look around for OFBiz work and was intrigued to see your email there this morning. I have been working with OFBiz for over 10 years now and am interested in what you have going. But I

Re: Reposting from David Jones on Moqui

2014-03-07 Thread Al Byers
are heavily invested in this project, and they are not going to throw that all away for a new one. Adrian Crum Sandglass Software www.sandglass-software.com On 3/7/2014 5:58 AM, Al Byers wrote: In light of the current discussion about the future of OFBiz I thought it would be worth revisiting one

Re: Reposting from David Jones on Moqui

2014-03-07 Thread Al Byers
at objectively, porting to Moqui would be the best choice in terms of keeping the project viable. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Al Byers bye...@automationgroups.comwrote: Adrian, I think that you have summed up the situation in your succinct post - there are some service providers who

Re: Reposting from David Jones on Moqui

2014-03-07 Thread Al Byers
, and they are not going to throw that all away for a new one. Adrian Crum Sandglass Software www.sandglass-software.com On 3/7/2014 5:58 AM, Al Byers wrote: In light of the current discussion about the future of OFBiz I thought it would be worth revisiting one of my finer moments by reposting this from

Re: Ofbiz related article in the german Javamagazin

2013-10-17 Thread Al Byers
Do they allow comments? You know, so I can go say something about Moqui? :0) I think I know enough German for that. -Al On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Jacques Le Roux jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com wrote: For German speaking users, Paul Piper from http://www.ilscipio.com/ has recetnly

Re: Looking for an experience Java programmer with OFBiz experience

2013-05-31 Thread Al Byers
the OFBiz PMC. It's really not the type of project management we need. Regards Scott On 22/05/2013, at 10:26 PM, Al Byers wrote: I feel like I owe another apology to the OFBiz developers. Though my initial remarks were accidental (and embarrassing), I was wrong not to acknowledge

Re: Looking for an experience Java programmer with OFBiz experience

2013-05-22 Thread Al Byers
. Thanks for all that you have done. - Al Byers On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Jacques Le Roux jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com wrote: From: Al Byers bye...@automationgroups.com Sorry Adrian, Had my mind on too many things and didn't mean to send it to the list. But then, a dose of open

Re: Looking for an experience Java programmer with OFBiz experience

2013-05-20 Thread Al Byers
is readily available off the moqui.org website. I hope to hear from you soon. Al Byers 801-400-5111 On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Carlos Cruz car...@nbtbizcapital.comwrote: Hi; ** ** I'm looking for a Java programmer that is familiar with OFBiz. Particularly with OFBiz Web Services

Re: Looking for an experience Java programmer with OFBiz experience

2013-05-20 Thread Al Byers
is no longer brilliant. OFBiz continues to be just as brilliant, with a talented team of developers keeping it current with current technology. -Adrian On 5/20/2013 4:04 PM, Al Byers wrote: Hi Carlos, I am just starting to look around for OFBiz work and was intrigued to see your email

Re: Using jetty instead of tomcat

2012-06-06 Thread Al Byers
in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/FAQ+-+Tips+-+Tricks+-+Cookbook+-+HowTo Or more likely https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide Jacques From: Al Byers bye...@automationgroups.com I got this from Joe Eckard and think

Re: Using jetty instead of tomcat

2012-06-06 Thread Al Byers
I think things have changed in the later versions of OFBiz. See below: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Al Byers bye...@automationgroups.com wrote: I got this from Joe Eckard and think it is worth sharing for anyone else coming along. Thanks Joe. Switching to jetty and back is easy painless

Re: Using jetty instead of tomcat

2012-06-05 Thread Al Byers
ofbiz.jar jetty - this will cause Start.java to load the startup jetty.properties, which tells ofbiz to use framework/base/config/jetty.properties instead of the default framework/base/config/ofbiz.properties) -Al On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Al Byers bye...@automationgroups.com wrote: I can't find

Using jetty instead of tomcat

2012-06-04 Thread Al Byers
I can't find any documentation on switching from tomcat to jetty. Is it as simple as just uncommenting the jetty line in framework/component-load.xml? Do I need to comment anything? How can I tell that jetty is running? Thanks to Joe for keeping the jetty stuff up-to-date. I see that you made a

Re: Using jetty instead of tomcat

2012-06-04 Thread Al Byers
Thanks for the reply, but what does it mean to: Use framework/base/config/jetty-containers.xml instead of framework/base/config/ofbiz-containers.xml. How do I turn one on and the other off? -Al On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:39 AM, mohd Viqar mhdwa...@gmail.com wrote: This has been asked before

Re: Clear trend...

2011-02-24 Thread Al Byers
Ok David, I'll bite; I would like to know what alternatives to Java you think are worth considering. Is Javascript one of them (my pick)? -Al On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:12 PM, David E Jones d...@me.com wrote: Back to being serious: thank goodness technology has progressed far beyond such

Let's rewrite OFBiz in ... (was: Clear trend...)

2011-02-24 Thread Al Byers
://www.scala-lang.org/ Jacques Al Byers wrote: Ok David, I'll bite; I would like to know what alternatives to Java you think are worth considering. Is Javascript one of them (my pick)? -Al On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:12 PM, David E Jones d...@me.com wrote: Back to being serious: thank goodness

OFBiz data sources for BIRT

2010-07-28 Thread Al Byers
I do not want to use SQL to define my reports in BIRT as I do not think I can get the performance that I need. Are there other options that are more OFBiz-centric than writing Mysql stored procedures. Thanks, -Al

Re: OFBiz data sources for BIRT

2010-07-28 Thread Al Byers
://twitter.com/hansbak%0AAntwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates. On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 18:00 -0600, Al Byers wrote: I do not want to use SQL to define my reports in BIRT as I do not think I can get the performance that I need. Are there other options that are more OFBiz-centric

Re: OFBiz data sources for BIRT

2010-07-28 Thread Al Byers
, Al Byers bye...@automationgroups.comwrote: Thanks Santosh and Hans. Please see questions below. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Santosh Malviya santosh.of...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Byers, You can also use groovy for retrieving data and put them in birtParameters map and pass the map

Alternate JobSandbox

2010-02-25 Thread Al Byers
I would like to create an alternate JobSandbox that ends up using a lower max thread-count. I have looked around and hope that I am missing the easy way to do it. I see that I could add another thread-pool to serviceengine.xml (anyway to do that without having to modify ofbiz code?), but how do I

Is there a race/ethnicity field anywhere?

2010-02-18 Thread Al Byers
Hard to believe there is not one, but I don't see it. Also, does anyone know if there is a set of industry-standard abbreviations for such? Thanks, -Al

best method for supplying dummy login

2010-01-11 Thread Al Byers
What is the best method for adding a user login from within a service to services that need authorization. Specifically, how do you guard against the condition that the supplied login will get hasLoggedOut set to N? Thanks, -Al

Re: Ofbiz for Real Estate Management

2009-12-03 Thread Al Byers
I don't think it is realistic to expect anyone to contribute a quality add-on back to the project and maintain it. All of us that work (or have worked) on the project do so because it contributes financially to us in other ways. If someone was to create a commercially viable add-on, then I think

Re: Ofbiz for Real Estate Management

2009-12-03 Thread Al Byers
Adrian, I think you have a valid point. But the companies that you named are just support companies and that has a different financial model than companies that profit from IP. You have to make a choice between making money via the support mode or the IP mode. If you choose the IP mode, then you

Re: question about mime type video/x-flv

2009-11-30 Thread Al Byers
Mridul, Thanks for taking the time to respond. Please see my comments below. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Mridul Pathak mridul.pat...@hotwaxmedia.com wrote: Al,    Please find my comments inline. On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Al Byers bye...@automationgroups.comwrote: 1. Why isn't

question about mime type video/x-flv

2009-11-28 Thread Al Byers
1. Why isn't it in mime-type.xml and where does mime-type.xml get used? 2. I call createDataResource and print out the value of DataResource and it contains video/x-flv in the mimeTypeId, but in the next service, the value is set to application/octet-stream and I cannot find the seca that changes

Delivering .swf files via the serveObjectData object

2009-09-22 Thread Al Byers
Has anyone delivered a Flash movie using the streaming capability of the content management system? I am looking at it in the debugger and it seems to be delivering content, but I am wondering if there are headers or something that needs to be done to get a movie to display? Instead of displaying

Re: Delivering .swf files via the serveObjectData object

2009-09-22 Thread Al Byers
=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive300 Connectionkeep-alive CookieJSESSIONID=30505A4145DF6140132481E34E6F3364.jvm1; pe.autoUserLoginId=admin; webtools.autoUserLoginId=admin; eng.autoUserLoginId=admin; OFBiz.Visitor=10001 Does anybody see anything? -Al On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Al Byers bye

Re: Drools integration

2009-06-17 Thread Al Byers
Erwan, I think integrating Drools with OFBiz would be a great thing. I have not looked at it recently, but a couple of years ago I fooled around with it and did a simple proof-of-concept. I thought it was worth open a JIRA issue for, so I did - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2624

How can I get this antisamy-esapi.xml error

2009-05-28 Thread Al Byers
I just got this error after updating OFBiz for the first time in 2-3 months: exception report -- Service invocation error Exception: org.ofbiz.service.GenericServiceException Message: Service [loadTests] target threw an unexpected

Re: How can I get this antisamy-esapi.xml error

2009-05-28 Thread Al Byers
Nevermind. I see that I have an svn update conflict. -Al On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Al Byers bye...@automationgroups.comwrote: I just got this error after updating OFBiz for the first time in 2-3 months: exception report

Re: Accessing CMS Content from FTL

2009-05-04 Thread Al Byers
Abdullah, Have you looked at the .ftl files in the applications/content/webapp/content/cms dir? -Al On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:19 AM, abdullah shaikh abdullah.sha...@viithiisys.com wrote: Hi All, I have been able to create content and access it using the sub-content tag, but how do I

Re: CompDoc and Content Review/Approval Mechanism

2009-03-23 Thread Al Byers
Michael, I coded much of the Content Approval Services code a long time ago. I hesitated to respond, because I cannot remember any of it and am very short on time. If you have some specific questions, I will try to answer them. As I remember, the project on which this code was used was not

Why never-cache on OrderHeader and OrderItem?

2009-03-13 Thread Al Byers
What is the general reason for turning cache off? Why for OrderHeader and OrderItem, in particular? Can caching be turned on via extend-entity? thanks for any info. -Al

Re: Dealing with ESAPI in CMS

2009-02-24 Thread Al Byers
again for a simple and pragmatic solution to my problem and shedding new light on CMS philosophy. -Al -David On Feb 23, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Al Byers wrote: I am storing a very large JSON string in the database using the CMS. Am I right in understanding that because the createTextContent

Dealing with ESAPI in CMS

2009-02-23 Thread Al Byers
I guess one of the first places that we will run into ESAPI affects is in content management when we try to store images and the like that are larger than the default maxInputSize = 5000 specified in the antisamy-esapi.xml file. What would be the best approach to dealing with this? 1. Just

Re: Dealing with ESAPI in CMS

2009-02-23 Thread Al Byers
I am storing a very large JSON string in the database using the CMS. Am I right in understanding that because the createTextContent service does not have an allowHtml attribute on the textData field set to none that in ModelService.validate method it is the StringUtil.checkStringForHtmlStrictNone

Re: content references

2009-01-22 Thread Al Byers
Hans, One possible advantage to doing things in the manner that you described is the ability to design a single permission system that could be used in different situations. Many times the entity to which content is associated is part of a hierarchical tree - organizations(parties), workeffort

Re: Question on session tracking

2008-11-21 Thread Al Byers
I am able to get around the problem by pulling the JSESSIONID value out of the returned headers and adding it to the second url in the form of ...;jsessionid= Setting the return JSESSIONID header to the same header that is returned did not fix the problem. I wonder if it could have something

Question on session tracking

2008-11-20 Thread Al Byers
I am working on a plugin for the SeleniumXml tool that Brett demoed at Apachecon. It sends a request to the server and parses the result, putting it into the SeleniumXml test context. I am using Apache's HttpClient 4.0b3 because it has some nice response handling features. I am making two

Re: Question on session tracking

2008-11-20 Thread Al Byers
See below. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Al Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I am working on a plugin for the SeleniumXml tool that Brett demoed at Apachecon. It sends a request to the server and parses the result, putting it into the SeleniumXml test context. I am using Apache's

Re: Question on session tracking

2008-11-20 Thread Al Byers
I am getting a little smarter. Instead of looking at the cookies, I printed the headers: Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=C8772FCBF4B7ACD69029A6FB8F9C2AFD.jvm1; Path=/eng Set-Cookie: OFBiz.Visitor=10223; Expires=Sat, 21-Nov-2009 07:47:39 GMT; Path=/ Set-Cookie:

Re: How to upload images from your machine to OFBIZ?

2008-07-14 Thread Al Byers
Robert, See the attachUploadToDataResource service in the content dir. - Al On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Robert Volke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to find out if there is a way to upload images from my machine to OFBiz using the OFBiz interface, possibly through ContentData

Re: Gathering Data From External Websites

2008-07-08 Thread Al Byers
Adrian, In the past I have used JTidy to make sure it is in XHTML and then wrote Freemarker scripts to process the markup. I find FM to be easier to use than XSLT because it has a loop index var and it is easier to connect it with Java classes that you may wish to write to help in the processing.

How to implement flexible purchase scheme

2008-03-17 Thread Al Byers
We have a situation in which a company wants to purchase so many products in advance and let their employees choose, say, 2 out of 10 possible products. So if the 10 possible products all cost $50 each and the purchasing company wants to allow their 50 employees to acquire two each, that is a

Java version string library

2008-01-16 Thread Al Byers
I have java question that is tough to query on and I am hoping my OFBiz friends can help me out. I want to implement a version id ( such as ContentRevision has) that has the form, 1.02 - with major and minor revisions. Is there an existing library for dealing with the incrementing and ordering of

Re: Ofbiz rules engine?

2008-01-15 Thread Al Byers
I think the current rules engine is pretty much deprecated. I have heard talk that if there is any more work to be done with rules it would involve integrating an existing engine such as Drools. A year or so ago I integrated Drools with OFBiz, but did not do much with it except to start on a

JSONObject to Map

2007-12-14 Thread Al Byers
Is there a simple way to convert a JSONObject to its HashMap repesentation? Thanks, -Al

Re: JSONObject to Map

2007-12-14 Thread Al Byers
Thanks Chris, It looks like the answer is this: Map bean = (Map)JSONObject.toBean(json, java.util.HashMap.class); -Al

How to model a class

2007-11-20 Thread Al Byers
What is the best way to model a class (an instance of a class - with a meeting time and students, etc.) - as a PartyGroup or WorkEffort or something else? -Al

Re: CMS Path Alias

2007-11-09 Thread Al Byers
on a content record and return that content? Yes, I think it would work just by defining the cms request in your controller. -Al Vince Clark Global Era The Freedom of Open Source [EMAIL PROTECTED] (303) 493-6723 - Original Message - From: Al Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user

Re: CMS Path Alias

2007-11-08 Thread Al Byers
: content/contentalias The reason we are trying to use this is to make URL's more SEO friendly. Vince Clark Global Era The Freedom of Open Source [EMAIL PROTECTED] (303) 493-6723 - Original Message - From: Al Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Thursday, November 8

Re: CMS Path Alias

2007-11-08 Thread Al Byers
Vince, I have worked with the path alias a little bit. It is something that Andrew added to make the CMS one step closer to mainstream functionality. It is used in the CmsEvents class. The idea is that the url would have a /contentId at the end and it would display that content. I think the

Re: Content Manager Questions

2007-10-25 Thread Al Byers
Adrian, I don't believe anything is in place to do that. Look in the content email packages for functionality to actually send the emails. I forget where the code that handles marketing campaigns exists, but it is there and could be helpful. I would think that you would want to use the

Re: Ofbiz and Dojo

2007-09-15 Thread Al Byers
Guo, I have been using Dojo for 3 weeks and am also impressed. If you are thinking about integrating it with screen widgets, then we should collaborate, as I was also thinking of doing the same thing. I work on the original screen widget code so I have a pretty good feel on how things work. I

Re: Ofbiz and Dojo

2007-09-15 Thread Al Byers
easily.It'll be greate if there is any design that we could implement together. 2007/9/16, Al Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guo, I have been using Dojo for 3 weeks and am also impressed. If you are thinking about integrating it with screen widgets, then we should collaborate, as I was also

Re: ofBiz for a Super Market

2007-09-11 Thread Al Byers
Thomas, I have been doing a bit with Dojo (http://www.dojotoolkit.org) lately and I recommend it. I think it will be possible to integrate the XML-based screen widget technology with that toolkit, but I don't know how soon it will be happening. BTW, I have been adding bits and pieces of GIS

Re: Forum (or Content Management) Entities

2007-08-07 Thread Al Byers
Adrian, Building the forum/blog functionality out would be a great thing for OFBiz. Up until now, I think it was lacking someone who had a definite need. I am really busy, but I have a strong desire to see this move forward, so I will do what I can when I can. Andrew Zeneski has done a bunch

GIS anyone?

2007-08-06 Thread Al Byers
I have gotten quite involved with GIS lately and just wanted to ping the lists to see if there was any interest out there. I have been writing an WFS server interface for OFBiz and a GeoRSS service. The WFS server will allow you to use open source software, such as MapBuilder, to overlay points

Re: content management (cms)

2007-07-03 Thread Al Byers
of the @limitedSubContent ... function I'd expect to get subcontents. I know there was an issue with content/subcontent direction. Is this still a problem? Thanks, David -Original Message- From: Al Byers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Montag, 2. Juli 2007 17:14 To: user@ofbiz.apache.org; [EMAIL

Re: content management (cms)

2007-07-02 Thread Al Byers
David, I doubt that there is a more stable version. I coded much of the original CMS from David Jone's design, but Andrew Zeneski has added a lot of enhancements with which I am still becoming familiar. I am using CMS for sites other than e-commerce and would be glad to answer your questions,

Re: XML Data Import error

2007-03-20 Thread Al Byers
Tej, I found this link, http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/users/2005-August/008669.html, by going to advanced google search and searching on ofbiz and Invalid UTF-8 Encoding. HTH -Al On 3/20/07, tej minhas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During importing of a fairly large XML file I get the

Re: Question on the use-when syntax

2007-02-27 Thread Al Byers
Philip, It is probably worth supplying the stacktrace from your log file and the code snippet from your file. I can't see a problem what is below. -Al On 2/27/07, Philip W. Dalrymple III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In form widgits I am trying to use the use-when attr. to present the user with

Re: row-actions usage

2007-02-19 Thread Al Byers
Christopher, What do you mean by the current example status? -Al On 2/19/07, Christopher Snow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I display the current example status is the ListExample form? Thanks in advance, Chris form name=ListExamples type=list actions entity-condition

Re: form widgets

2007-02-19 Thread Al Byers
referred to anywhere in the form. In fact, the form works ok without the list-name attribute in the form. ? :( On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 10:16 -0700, Al Byers wrote: Christopher, In this case the entity-condition op gets the list-name from the form element and puts the list if gets there. And since

Re: OrderAdjustments and ShoppingList

2007-02-16 Thread Al Byers
from a shopping list may not apply to the next if it expires first. To do something else would require additional code. -David On Feb 15, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Al Byers wrote: I have a case where someone buys something and they need to be rebilled on a periodic basis. I am using a ShoppingList

OrderAdjustments and ShoppingList

2007-02-15 Thread Al Byers
I have a case where someone buys something and they need to be rebilled on a periodic basis. I am using a ShoppingList to do that. My concern is how do promotions that were in effect at the time of the purchase get applied each time a shopping cart and then order are generated from the

Re: form/screen - how to set field to current date

2007-02-13 Thread Al Byers
Tej, There is a variable that is automatically put into the widget environment, called, nowTimestamp. Here is a line from a form file that I found by using the eclipse search function (contrainted it to *.xml, *.ftl files): field name=fromDatedate-time default-value=${nowTimestamp}//field -Al

Re: form/screen - how to set field to current date

2007-02-13 Thread Al Byers
Tej, There are far worse things that happen on the list than saying thank you :0), but you are right that it is probably clutter that we don't need. Responding directly to the other party is probably okay if you wish to express thanks, since it would not be of any value to the rest of the