Hi Christian, While that product will have its merits too, your posting here is an argument for choosing OFBiz over it.
Thanks, and regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Adrian Crum < [email protected]> wrote: > It's a long story. Opentaps had a financials module before OFBiz. That > module stayed local to Opentaps - it was not contributed back to the main > project. Then the OFBiz community created its own financials module. So, > the two are incompatible. > > In summary, Opentaps is an OFBiz fork that has, over the years, moved away > from the OFBiz framework and toward other technologies/designs. They are > going in a different direction - so there is no effort to contribute back > to the OFBiz project. > > Adrian Crum > Sandglass Software > www.sandglass-software.com > > > On 12/20/2013 7:35 AM, Christian Carlow wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >>
