Re: Disabling the Shark component?

Posted by Si Chen-2 on Oct 25, 2006; 12:50am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Disabling-the-Shark-component-tp173572p173575.html

David,

I think the concern that I have is that the Shark component really  
doesn't work, there's doesn't seem to be any effort to get it to work  
right now, and the SECAs do a great job of supporting real work  
flow.  If it worked, of course it's better to have a workflow engine  
than not, but will that be the case at any foreseeable point in the  
future?  Might it be better to have it in specialized/ until somebody  
can get it to work again?

On Oct 24, 2006, at 2:59 PM, David E Jones wrote:

>
> It really isn't correct to say that the license is incompatible,  
> only that we can't distribute the jar files because of the license.
>
> If we decide on this, we should decide based on goals for the  
> framework. Right now nothing outside of the shark component uses  
> Shark, so disabling it would be fine, but if we want to use  
> workflow in the future in OFBiz it isn't going to be based on the  
> OFBiz workflow engine (unless someone has a few thousand hours I  
> don't know about that they want to invest in this...).
>
> So, do I understand from this that the direction we want to go is  
> to just not have a workflow engine in OFBiz?
>
> Personally, I'd rather see the OFBiz workflow component go before  
> the Shark component, though it would certainly be nice if there was  
> another alternative with a friendlier license. Or perhaps the Shark  
> community would consider a change to the Apache license, or if they  
> still like the copy-left style stuff for code changes, then perhaps  
> the Mozilla license?
>
> -David
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Si Chen wrote:
>
>> I agree.  How about we just move into that specialized/ SVN that  
>> David has?  Even if it worked, it still wouldn't make sense to  
>> have it in the ASF SVN because the actual Shark is not license  
>> compatible.
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>>
>>> What about disabling the Shark component?
>>> It is a component that has never been completed, we have moved  
>>> outside of OFBiz the Shark jars (for license issues) and its user  
>>> interface is clearly not maintained updated with the rest of the  
>>> project: the Shark component is the only component, together with  
>>> the Content component :-( that still hosts JPublish pages.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Jacopo
>>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Si
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>>
>>
>>

Best Regards,

Si
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