Cameron "In term of the best value-for-money option, my (and my company's) money is on ZK. We bought commercial licenses, because our programmers receive salaries, and every hour they spend reinventing the wheel instead of using someone else's wheel, however fun it may be, is an additional cost."
Well said and very true. However, there is no chance of integrating ZK with Ofbiz because of the licensing. There is a chance of doing it with OpenLazlo. Ofbiz is an open source project and all benefit from the collective work of the contributors. In addition, there are several forks which add to this work (Opentaps and Noegia (spelling?). On these collective versions are built many real live implementations. If we look at the usefulness, additions to Ofbiz benefit everyone. Additions to Opentaps and Noegia benefit their users but not all Ofbiz users. Changes to individual implementations benenit the implementations alone. ZK can only ever fit in the last catagory. It is my view that usability by the end user should be the most important consideration in an project. For this reason, a rich UI is highly desirable (maybe even manditory in some cases). It certainly is manditory in the ones I currently serve. I have therefore been evaluating the alternatives and have carefully read the two missives you wrote in the Ofbiz wiki and TheServerSide.com. In the later case, you rated the various technologies . In your abcde list of criteria, I think you missed one, and that being f. The number of users likely to benefit from it's adoption. If that list was re-evaluated today including my f, Openlazlo would win with a 5 vs. 4.5. Having said that, I personally like ZK better (with only a cursory look at both). But, for the communities sake, I may choose Openlazlo instead (or might use the existing Dojo). Skip
