David, Jacopo, I agree, thanks for comments. I will have a look at JPublish when the new version (JP4) will be there.
Jacques De : "Jacopo Cappellato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > We should really do the other way round: if there are issues in the > current widget implementation that we should discuss them in details and > find the best way to fix them. > I really think it is a waste of time to discuss these subjects for the > sake of discussion... there are so many options and technologies > available in the World and if we start a thread for each of them then we > will completely stop the development of OFBiz, i.e. the development of > an open source ERP system. > > Jacopo > > > Jacques Le Roux wrote: > > David, > > > > It would be very interesting if you could dress a list of all these > > problems or maybe the more importants. Then we (OFBiz > > developpers and users) would have solids arguments to choose between the > > future JPublish version and the widgets. BTW I like to work > > with the widgets but I don't know much about JPublish... > > > > Thanks > > > > Jacques > > > > PS : I may help to retrieve them from the old MLs and such if some pointers > > still exist... > > > > De : "David E Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> 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 > >> >
