--- On Sat, 9/18/10, chris snow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi BJ, there are parts of ofbiz that > could be 'easily' used outside of > ofbiz if they weren't all part of the same code base. > The Entity > Engine example is one part that could become a > library. Other parts > include the datatype coverters and temporal > expressions. At the > moment if I want to use these parts of ofbiz in external > applications, > I have to manually extract them from the ofbiz code base.
Actually, the conversion framework is a separate library: http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/convert/ > The framework would then be an assembly of libraries. By > splitting > ofbiz up, each library (entity engine, converters, > temporal > expressions, etc) could be developed independently of the > rest of the > ofbiz code. Someone had suggested some time ago in a similar discussion that the OFBiz framework itself could be condensed down to a single jar file. -Adrian
