Posted by
David E Jones-2 on
Aug 05, 2006; 1:53am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Ofbiz-and-Ruby-on-Rails-tp170367p170373.html
This is an interesting topic from an infrastructure perspective. It
sounds like there is some suggestion of incorporating it into the
framework and moving to it as the standard UI layer tool set...
Has anyone done any conversions of existing OFBiz artifacts to
compare size and complexity and establish some prospective tools or
patterns for integration with other pieces and such? Actually, from a
PoC perspective once could do the same things we did early on with
OFBiz: define the artifacts and make sure we can define everything we
want, and then build the engine behind them. In other words we
defined XSD (or DTD in the early days) files, and some text XML files
based on them to develop towards and support. These were written to
replace specific pages, usually picking a more complicated one. For
example, the first form widget form in OFBiz was the EditProduct form
with the two columns and such, and that form definition existed even
before the form widget engine.
This sort of PoC effort would be the first step for anything like this.
-David
On Aug 4, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Leon Torres wrote:
> Yeah we've been looking into this kind of thing and talking to some
> people about Rails and OFBiz. This is actually a huge topic which
> might be better discussed at a conference or something.
>
> - Leon
>
>
> Chris Howe wrote:
>> Si and Leon and others,
>> I just started to look at some Ruby on Rails stuff and
>> was curious as to your impressions of what aspects of
>> OFBiz could not be replicated in RoR. Or is it
>> possible to get off Java entirely? How much of OFBiz
>> could be entirely reused vs. how much would just be
>> translating templates, etc?