I have the same question as Ruth had: Is anyone working on such
Add-on
management or do we have any plan for this feature?
Furthermore, now I can see some other softwares, which are on top of
ofbiz,
are having more and more features which actually should be in ofbiz
framework or core application level, like Add-on management, domain
driven
support, Ajax, more friendly report or dashboard, etc. (I am not that
technical, so maybe I am wrong)
As end customer or service vendor, if we choose any of those
softwares, then
we have to face a big problem that is how to sync ofbiz and that
chosen
software. (Normally, those softwares will get synced with ofbiz trunk
in
every big release. That means we have to wait...but sometimes we just
cannot.)
I know it is easy to just throw such a question but hard to come up
with a
solution. But I still want to know what's your thought at this point
:-)
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Ruth Hoffman
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Jacques:
> Thanks for the update. This is what I was wondering - if anyone was
working
> on this.
> Ruth
>
> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>
>> At this stage 2 points :
>>
>> 1) In OFBiz, there is already a basic ant task to create a
component
>> structure
>> * ant -help and * ant -projecthelp are your friends
>> * ant create-component is the task
>> 2) Currently the Neogia team is buildind a concept of add-ons for
OFBiz
>> * It's not yet finished
>> * But promising, see (mostly in French but there is an option to
>> translate in English using when only in French)
>> ** http://www.neogia.org/Add-on_Manager_Design
>> **
http://www.neogia.org/OFBiz_add-on/fr#Qu.27est_ce_qu.27un_Addon
>> ** http://www.neogia.org/Add-on_Manager
>>
>> Beware I don't think it's operational yet, but the documents above
can
>> give you an idea of the concept
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>> From: "aswath narayana" <[email protected]>
>>
>>> I think it will be a good idea to do administration of components
in
>>> OFBiz.
>>> OFBiz might get bloated with infrastructure and maintainance, when
we
>>> start
>>> doing component development within OFBiz itself.
>>>
>>> An alternate would be to have a plugin in Eclipse that will help
in
>>> building
>>> of OFBiz components (A wizard interface to build a directory
structure
>>> and
>>> ability to create database and view entities visually).
>>>
>>> -Aswath
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Michael Xu (xudong)
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>> hi Ruth,
>>>>
>>>> I really like your idea, which is very similar with JIRA and
>>>> Confluence's
>>>> plugin model. If users can use such a wizard to install/uninstall
new
>>>> component on the fly (without restart), that would be more
helpful to
>>>> promote ofbiz to next level in SaaS wise.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Michael Xu (xudong)
>>>> www.wizitsoft.com | Office: (8610) 6267 0615 ext 806 | Mobile:
(86) 135
>>>> 0135
>>>> 9807 | Fax: (8610) 62670096
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Ruth Hoffman
<[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Hi David:
>>>> > Thanks for the quick reply. Given your response - I'm wondering
if a
>>>> useful
>>>> > addition to OFBiz would be a feature in webtools to manage
OFBiz
>>>> components.
>>>> > I can envision a wizard driven interface that builds the basic
>>>> directory
>>>> > structure and config file(s) such as the ofbiz-component.xml
file
>>>> necessary
>>>> > to get a new component operational? This could be extended to
allow
>>>> for
>>>> the
>>>> > (sort-of) dynamic removal of components. What do you think?
>>>> >
>>>> > Ruth
>>>> >
>>>> > David E Jones wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The best way to do this is just put it in the "hot-deploy"
directory.
>>>> When
>>>> >> OFBiz starts up it will look in that directory for
sub-directories
>>>> that
>>>> have
>>>> >> a "ofbiz-component.xml" file which it will read to load
resources for
>>>> that
>>>> >> component.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> -David
>>>> >>
>>>> >> P.S. It's good to see you around again Ruth!
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Apr 19, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hello All:
>>>> >>> I'm a big fan of OFBiz - nice job on the Apache site, BTW.
>>>> >>> Congratulations - it is World class!
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I've been using OFBiz off and on for a few years now for a
number of
>>>> >>> different projects. Recently, I had a requirement to add a
custom
>>>> component
>>>> >>> to the application section of the framework. After a brief
search of
>>>> the
>>>> >>> mailing lists (I have been away from the OFBiz collaborative
tools
>>>> for
>>>> >>> sometime) and documentation I have the following question:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Is there an automatic way to add a component to the framework
- or
>>>> is
>>>> >>> this still a manual process? I don't see any obvious webtool
or
>>>> other
>>>> >>> mechanism for doing this through OFBiz.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Regards,
>>>> >>> Ruth Hoffman
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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