Hi Raj,
As I see much interest in OSDGI (not particularly me, I mean in the community)
I would suggest to create an entry at
http://ofbiz.uservoice.com/
or
http://ofbiz.ideascale.com/
as you like
Thanks
Jacques
From: "Raj Saini" <[email protected]>
Hi David,
One thing could be useful in the long run is moving to OSGi based components. There are numerous benefits of OSGi and you can find
a a lot about it on the net. The kind of modularity OSGi brings is not possible in other components modules. Dynamic bundle
loading and unloading is useful during development and run time. During development, for example if you have changed some Java
code in one of the bundle, you do not need to restart the complete server to load the new code. Just update or stop/start the
bundle and you are ready to test. One more advantage I see is exporting OFBiz services as web services or distributed OSGi
services. Eclipse ECF and Apache CXF provide distributed OSGi implementation. Integration with other applications such as
ServiceMix should also be very easier as they are already run on OSGi platform.
Thanks,
Raj
I recently completed a prototype to run the OFBiz framework embedded in the Equinox OSGi runtime and it worked fine with little
changes here and there.
David E Jones wrote:
If you could change anything about the OFBiz framework (not related to a specific tier), what would it be? This could be about
how OFBiz is deployed, how the tools fit together, how application components are written and organized, and so on.
All comments are welcome. If there is another tool you'd like to see used, please describe what you like about it (like "I've
found the aspect oriented inversion of control approach nice because I can plugin all sorts of tools and the full life cycle of
the tools are managed for me") instead of just mentioning the tool (like "let's use Spring!").
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 one of the tiers (ie the Data, Logic, or
UI tiers) please use the other threads on those.
-David
