David E Jones wrote:
Even still, I think it is more than just a matter of preference. There are significant developer efficiency, design flexibility, and code organization problems with JPublish that were solved with the Screen Widget. Our motive with the Screen Widget was to solve those problems and improve various things... not to just get rid of JPublish (there was no library conflict at the time, that was about 2 years later).
This point may be moot now, but at the time OFBiz was using JPublish I was able to solve many of those problems on my local copy. It turned out that JPublish wasn't configured correctly in OFBiz. By the time I submitted my fixes to Jira, the decision had already been made to switch over to widgets, so the fixes never made their way into the project.
So, from my perspective the change from JPublish to screen widgets was imperceptible - because the "problems" the widgets solved didn't exist on my copy.
-Adrian
