Hi Chris:
True. Maybe "difficult" is a poor choice of words. What is difficult
aside from finding the time, is finding the right words to accurately
articulate how the applications work. Business process documentation
would certainly help.
Regards,
Ruth
Chris Snow wrote:
Hi Ruth,
I wouldn't even say it's difficult to figure out the existing
applications. It is very time consuming. Without high level overview
documentation, the only way to understand the existing apps is to go
through each line of code.
I really think there should be a process documentation effort - of
which I'm willing to give my time...
Cheers,
Chris
Ruth Hoffman wrote:
Hi Chris:
I think you are spot on. Once you understand the basics, it is
relatively easy to develop data driven web applications with the
OFBiz framework. I've been doing just that for several years now. All
that "nasty" database stuff is taken care of - leaving me free to
develop real world solutions in short order.
What is much more difficult is to figure out how to use the existing
applications to solve real world problems. I'm still struggling with
that.
Regards,
Ruth
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Chris Snow wrote:
Hi Marc,
This is one of the reasons I have been pushing for and independent
ofbiz framework. It's is relatively quick to learn how to develop
standalone apps in ofbiz. I believe with ofbiz, you can develop
small applications as quickly as you can in MS Access - with a lot
more benefits when using ofbiz (multiuser, web enabled, extendable,
etc).
However, in my opinion, it takes years of experience to be able to
use the existing apps (partymgmt, ordermgmt, etc).
Cheers,
Chris
Marc Morin wrote:
It's taken us about 6-12 months to get proficient in ofbiz....
mostly because we mostly "resisted" doing things the ofbiz way....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Crum" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 7:04:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: does anyone know ofbiz?
--- On Fri, 1/22/10, Chris Snow <[email protected]> wrote:
Is it possible for one person to have a deep understanding
of how ALL of the components in ofbiz work? It is
vast. I have found that the only way to tackle the
problem is to break in into chucks: the framework, party
management, work effort... At the rate I'm going I
will have figured it all out in 5 years time.
It took me about 6 months to wrap my head around OFBiz. I have been
using it for 6 years and there are things that I'm still learning
about it.
-Adrian
