On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:01 PM, James McGill wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:06 PM, BJ Freeman <[email protected]>
wrote:
if your are time and resource constrained, ofbiz is not right for
you.
Do you say that in general, or is there something inherent in
subscription-based services that makes a poor fit with OFBiz?
There wasn't a lot of detail in the original question, but yes, OFBiz
does support products sold as subscriptions in a variety of forms (ie
with lots of options supported OOTB). To really say yes or no you'd
have to do a gap analysis based on more detailed requirements.
I'm not sure what BJ meant, as he wasn't very specific either.
Whatever he meant, I don't agree. If you are writing a simple
application and don't want to reuse existing functionality the OFBiz
framework itself is a great way of doing things and a great set of
tools that IMO competes well with everything else out there in terms
of developer efficiency and runtime scalability. For more complex
applications Apache OFBiz becomes even more valuable as long as you
make sure to reuse existing things, and then you can really put
together complex applications quickly.
Perhaps what BJ meant is that if you have any sort of complex set of
requirements then it will require effort no matter what tools or
existing functionality you try to use. If you think that you can find
something to use OOTB, or even adjust your requirement to fit some
OOTB solution, just make sure you review it in detail first! It can
certainly work out, but often doesn't. Even if it does pretty much all
businesses that live more than a year or so will want to change and
expand things and many solutions designed to be used only OOTB will
make that difficult. Again, this is where OFBiz comes in with a
combination of existing functionality and flexibility too.
-David
