I feel it is worth looking at the other way too. If ofbiz were to move towards reusing projects like hibernate and spring and generalize some of the cool concepts into reusable libraries packaged through something like Apache Commons or ofbiz subprojects it would drive adoption. By resuable i mean things like XML form based langugage, renderers. minilang. These nice ideas do not need to be ofbiz only.
I realize this is difficult and not immediate focus of ofiz.. I am also sure this may not always be best design or priority fit. .. but it does cause practical problems - developers pay by not learning other things that are potentially more mature in design and popularity, this in turn can lead to lower financial returns as outlined by Christopher. For employers, if a developer votes with their feet a lot of training investment is lost. Books really help. Cost of understanding and maintaining ofbiz based projects and having developers feel it is the right thing to learn is very important i feel. Harmeet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth Hoffman" <[email protected]> The more new adopters we get, the more likely OFBiz will be brought into the enterprise and become mainstream. And then the secret will be out and everyone will be salivating all over it - just like the do with Spring and Hibernate. Christopher Snow wrote: > I spend a lot of time learning. I am learning new systems all the > time and to date I have implemented a multitude of opensource > solutions . I enjoy learning, I enjoy new technologies. ... > When looking at returns, as a contractor, I usually notice what skills > the UK job boards are asking for. I have seen a few jobs recently > asking for adempiere and compiere skills. I have not seen many jobs > requiring ofbiz skills, but I do have a number of small companies that > want bespoke enterprise application development that suits the ofbiz > framework.
