David E Jones wrote:
Adrian Crum wrote:
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.
Could you be more specific about the "problems" you were working on?
My reason for asking is probably fairly clear: there were lots of issues
and limitations and things that weren't terribly efficient or
flexible... the list goes into the dozens of items so I'm wondering
which you found solutions to.
-David
Oh geez, that was years ago... I vaguely remember the main complaint being you couldn't share
scripts and templates between components. There were one or two more issues I can't recall - I just
remember thinking to myself that those issues could be fixed by changing a few JPublish
configuration xml files.
With a little research and a little effort we were able to have global scripts and global templates.
In addition, components shared bits of bsh and ftl, etc. We broke down common screen elements into
reusable pieces and shared them between components.
I'm sure you are aware of issues that I'm not aware of. Maybe this is a good time to go over them
and see if they have been fixed. Not that I'm trying to push JPublish or anything, but since the
subject has come up, why not look into it again?
-Adrian
