Re: Ofbiz for Real Estate Management

Posted by Adrian Crum on Dec 03, 2009; 5:22pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Ofbiz-for-Real-Estate-Management-tp930992p947787.html

Jeroen van der Wal wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Adrian Crum <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Jeroen van der Wal wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think Ofbiz benefits by adding industry specifc
>>> features; keeping the existing codebase stable and testable already
>>> requires
>>> a lot of effort from the community. I personally would like a clearer
>>> separtion between the Framework, Core modules and Add-ons but that is a
>>> different discussion.
>>>
>> The specialpurpose folder is intended to be used for industry-specific or
>> role-based applications. Apache OFBiz encourages that type of development,
>> and Apache OFBiz does, indeed, benefit from it.
>>
>
> So far no industry-specific solution made it to the special purpose folder
> (perhaps maybe e-commerce), has no one buillt a solution on top of Ofbiz
> before? And if everybody would contribute their specific solutions will
> Ofbiz then not end up being all but nothing?

Well, maybe you could help make real estate management one of the first
industry-specific solutions to be included with OFBiz.

If Apache OFBiz included several industry-specific applications, those
applications would demonstrate the abilities of OFBiz. What better way
to show off the platform than to have different applications built from it?

-Adrian