On Feb 12, 2006, at 1:55 AM, David Welton wrote:
>> So, i'm just wondering "Where does OFBiz go?". I mean whether it
>> will become a more middleware or more "business-oriented"?
>
> This is an easy one, I think, although I don't presume to speak for
> the core team:
>
> It will go where people write code to make it go:-)
Yes, this answer is pretty much correct. OFBiz is a community driven
project, and that means that there is no central organization or
group that drives all work done on the project. Instead it is driven
by the needs of dozens of groups doing things based on it at any
given time.
This page on the OFBiz.org site perhaps explains it best:
http://www.ofbiz.org/comingsoon.htmlAs to the specific question of middleware versus business oriented
(and by that I assume you mean business application oriented) I'll
have to guess that this is the question you are really asking: is
OFBiz going to change its nature and objectives as part of this ASF
effort?
The answer to that is no. It is a common mis-conception that the
Apache Software Foundation just does a certain type of software, like
just a web server or just infrastructure and tools. Most ASF projects
fit into those categories, but OFBiz is and will remain very focused
on efficient enterprise application development. We really don't want
to get into middleware tools, though we have in the past when
necessary because good alternatives did not exist. Every so often as
new things become available that can be helpful we will try to make
good use of them in OFBiz. One example is that right now we will
probably not use JOTM and Minerva directly any more, but rather
deploy inside Geronimo now that it is available....
-David
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