Questions about Opentaps

[Christian Carlow]

Whenever new features or improvements are requested for OFBiz, sometimes 
someone recommends looking at OpenTaps to see if and how it is 
implemented there.

I downloaded OpenTaps last month and had compilation issues related to 
framework/base code that was changed around 2 years ago on the OFBiz 
trunk.  I assume this means that parts of OpenTaps haven't been updated 
in years.  I never got around to resolving the compilation errors.

I assume this means that if functionality exists Opentaps that should 
also exist in OFBiz then much of the code could be subject to changes 
that conform to changes made to OFBiz since the revisions being used 
within Opentaps.  Is anyone running Opentaps to determine functionality 
differences.

I'm still not exactly sure why Opentaps would include any functionality 
that wouldn't be included in OFBiz.  I understand that Opentaps might 
use things like JasperReports which shouldn't be included in OFBiz but 
for things such as OFBIZ-5282 for introducting accounting ledger 
segmentation it seems such functionality would have been implemented in 
OFBiz.