If you could change anything about the user interface tier in OFBiz (basically the ControlServlet, the various widgets (Screen, Form, Menu, Tree), the separate webapps, actions in (or not in) groovy, etc), what would you change?
All comments are welcome. If there is another tool you'd like to see used instead of the Screen Widget (for example), please describe what you like about it (like "I like to orchestrate my web pages using Java classes" or "I like having fewer/more/bigger/smaller files" or "I hate having to declare every request and view" or "I wish the screens used included screens top-down instead of the bottom-up decorator pattern") instead of just mentioning the tool (like "let's use Struts!"). Why am I asking? This topic comes up every once in a while, and it's true that many suggestions never get enough support to actually happen (or on further research it is decided that the idea is not tenable), but brainstorming about them to get ideas in the open is still a great thing. The history of OFBiz is full of things like this where users and more casual contributors had ideas and saw possibilities that others, even more involved contributors, totally missed or never looked at that way. What I think would be fun, and ultimately useful too, is to keep this mostly to brainstorming and not do too much comparing of ideas. BTW, if you want to brainstorm about another tier (ie the Data or Logic tiers) please use the other threads on those. If you'd like to discuss things that aren't specific to a tier look for the "General" thread. -David
