requirements for an OFBiz IDE

Posted by Anders Hessellund on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/requirements-for-an-OFBiz-IDE-tp143148.html

Hi,

I've been doing a little reading of previous posts in this forum in order
to determine the requirements for a specialized OFBiz IDE (similar to
NetWeaver for SAP). Since I am still new to this community, my
observations might be wrong. However, as I see it, there are three main
user groups in the OFBiz community: 1) framework developers, 2)
application developers, and 3) application "customizers". The last group
is probably the largest, because the typical use case of OFBiz seems to be
to download, customize and deploy the standard OFBiz distribution. The two
first groups seems to have a significant overlap since application
development provides feature requests for the framework development.

I would appreciate some feedback on concrete tool requirements for the
three groups:

1) framework developers
   - e.g., better profiling and performance measurements of base components
2) application developers
   - e.g., better editors for different artifacts, analysis tools to
ensure consistency among XML files (such as checking whether a
referenced entity in a minilang file actually exists), navigation
tools, generators for boilerplate code (similar to Neogia)
3) application "customizers"
   - e.g., visual editors for frontend customization, easy configuration,
simple mapping from user requirements to actual ofbiz components

Please contribute to this list, if you have any ideas.

-- Anders