Well Jacques, this is one our plan-Bs to have a mobile-client built from ground-up around jPOS (since its distribution jar size is also very small i.e. ~700KB, though not sure again if it supports mobile devices) in case ofbiz thing doesn't work for us. Please suggest!!
regards, Tony Marcus On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> wrote: > The POS is built to work in such situation. But it's really built around > JavaPOS and I don't know if you can adapt it to this use > case. Because of course it needs a DB (hence a hard disk) and at the very > least 256 MB of RAM (not sure 256 will even be sufficient) > > Jacques > > From: "tony marcus" <[email protected]> >> >> I understand your apprehensions BJ, but the disconnected-mode is one >> of the main requirements/features that my client wants to have built >> in to his project so we are really looking towards having it worked >> out. Any suggestion/clue/hint in this regard will really be helpful >> for us. >> >> regards, >> Tony Marcus >> >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:34 AM, BJ Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> this has been a problem since the days of multiuser databass. >>> I recommend you steer away from having disconnnected system. >>> >>> >>> ========================= >>> BJ Freeman >>> Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation >>> <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/control/forum?forumId=SUPPLYCHAIN> >>> >>> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com> >>> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist >>> >>> Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man >>> >>> tony marcus sent the following on 6/22/2011 7:40 PM: >>> >>> >>>> Thanks for info. tips, Jacques. >>>> >>>> I suppose the WebPOS of OFBIZ will have to run a ofbiz app-server and >>>> all the mobile client will access it through Internet by any means, >>>> right!! but here we have scenarios where the mobile-clients can in >>>> disconnected mode (due to diff. reasons). How to tackle such >>>> situations? >>>> >>>> Please guide. >>>> >>>> best regards, >>>> Tony Marcus >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Jacques Le Roux >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> There was a 1st attempt some years ago: specialpurpose/hhfacility it's >>>>> far >>>>> from what you can have now on mobiles >>>>> >>>>> If you are looking for POS on such devices, then you should rather have >>>>> a >>>>> look at WebPos than POS which is really designed for Point Of Sell >>>>> >>>>> I guess you could use jQuery Mobile or of course plenty of other >>>>> tools... >>>>> >>>>> Jacques >>>>> >>>>> From: "tony marcus" <[email protected]> >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for the suggestion, Adrian. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thats what we already have as a backup plan but then we won't able to >>>>>> leverage the functionalities that ofbiz gives ootb including data >>>>>> sync'ing. I know ofbiz is a server kind of thing but can't we have >>>>>> some kind of smaller/reduced ver. of it which can run mobile devices? >>>>>> >>>>>> regards, >>>>>> Tony Marcus >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Adrian Crum >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You would be better off Keeping OFBiz on a server and create a mobile >>>>>>> device >>>>>>> portal in OFBiz. In other words, just have the device browse OFBiz. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -Adrian >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 6/21/2011 1:29 PM, tony marcus wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We are quite new to ofbiz but feature wise it seem to have almost >>>>>>>> all >>>>>>>> the functionality that we need. But there are few issues which we >>>>>>>> are >>>>>>>> not sure on how to resolve. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Requirement here is to build a client application based on ofbiz >>>>>>>> framework which is targeted to mobile devices and embedded devices. >>>>>>>> So >>>>>>>> the first issue is framework's size itself, which quite huge for >>>>>>>> mobile devices. Please suggest on how to reduce that to as small as >>>>>>>> possible. If not, then at least can just the POS client part of it >>>>>>>> be >>>>>>>> extracted and made run on mobile/embedded devices? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Secondly, since it has to on run mobile devices we need to compile >>>>>>>> it >>>>>>>> using j2me, but that not not happening. Please suggest on how to do >>>>>>>> that or if there is any other implementation of Java SDK that can >>>>>>>> help? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks in advance and looking forward your replies. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> regards, >>>>>>>> Tony Marcus >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > >
