You are welcome Ruth,
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Contributors+Best+Practices
Did you have a look at Neogia team work ?
Jacques
From: "Ruth Hoffman" <[email protected]>
Hi Tim:
I'd be interested and available to work on something like this. As an insider, how would you recommend getting started with the
JIRA process?
Regards,
Ruth
Tim Ruppert wrote:
Now you can see why some of us don't spend time on those other, derivative software packages. There are some benefits, but many
deterrents, so you have to weigh those. I personally like the idea of adding Add-on management to OFBiz and I doubt that it
would be all that difficult, but as is the case with everything in OFBiz, it has to be driven by the people contributing the
code.
Anyways, I know this doesn't get you the feature you're looking for implemented yet, but make a JIRA issue if there isn't one
already there, and it's likely to get worked on before too long.
Cheers,
Tim
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----- "Michael Xu (xudong)" <[email protected]> wrote:
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
:-)
--
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 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
