Thanks a lot for all replies, one important feature that we need is to
be able to run unlimited companies (with Chinese Walls between them) ,
do we really need to have a new DB for each company ? how that will even
work, one risk that caching (from JDBC driver, or Ofbiz itself) maybe a
problem , i.e. this is not PHP were each call is 100% hitting the db, in
Java we cache many stuff in JVM memory ! unless this will result in a
new ofbiz instance (in JVM) in this case running ofbiz as SaaS will be
very expensive.
Our POS system is a SaaS and we may have 100s or 1000s of
clients/companies and we don't want to spin a new ofbiz instance for
each one !
I'm confused a bit about "2 tenants" and that we need to have 2
databases for each !
Thanks in advance !
On 2/20/20 2:09 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Hi,
Inline completing Pierre's answer as much as possible
Le 20/02/2020 à 08:37, Pierre Smits a écrit :
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:15 AM Alaa Murad <[email protected]>
wrote:
2. We are planning to use ofbiz for few different companies, they all
100% independent, can we have one ofbiz instance for all of them
?how ?
In this scenario I would advice to set up 2 tenants to ensure having
Chinese Walls between the 2 companies. Each tenant would have its own
database, and can have different plugins in play.
BTW, you may have as most as tenants you need
3. How easy to sync/push products, invoices , payments , etc. from
our
POS --> ofbiz (i.e. can we insert invoice via APIs)
You may follow one of the suggested ways here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Handling+of+External+data
Be sure to compare with the other different possible ways documented
in the children pages of this page and pick the one (or several) which
best fit/s your needs.
5. I do see Arabic support implemented to some degree, but is it full
support, for example currency format, RTL (both web and PDF)
RTL is supported in Web, I don't think it is in PDF. Currency is
supported in both. Since we are using NotoSans font by default you can
use a very large set of characters in PDF.
You may have a look at
https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/example/control/fonts.pdf
6. Finally, how stable/active is ofbiz ? I see 30-40 emails per month
only in the mailing list, this make me very worry !
OFBiz was born in 2001, became a Top Level Project (TLP) in Apache
Software Foundation (ASF) in 2006 and was mature around 2010.
So yes it's pretty stable and safe (security). Since OFBiz is mature
the activity as decreased with a pick around 2016 as you can see here:
https://ofbiz.markmail.org/
HTH
Jacques
