[OFBiz] Dev - Ofbiz addons

[David Jones]

You are correct Adrian that the proper way to do this in OFBiz is to 
use the component feature, that is in part what it was designed for. 
Add-on applications, logic, or whatever can be put into a component so 
that it can be easily deployed in an OFBiz instance without modifying 
anything else (assuming the component is made to work properly with the 
version of OFBiz it is running with, etc).

I like the idea of creating an add-on component library, but I must 
admit I'm not inclined to worry about this until there is at least one 
such component to put in such a library. Also, depending on how 
volatile these add-ons end up being we may do things differently. For 
example, we may offer CVS modules for these on one of our CVS servers 
(still not sure where that would go though...) or we may just create a 
new folder in the files area on our java.net site and throw zip files 
up there with "packaged releases" of the add-on components.

-David


On Jul 23, 2004, at 9:10 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:

> I've been thinking about this too. How can we develop vertical apps 
> and contribute them back to the project? At first glance, we could 
> just add more folders to the components folder, but eventually, that 
> could grow to a hundred or more folders. In addition, if all of that 
> is included in the distribution, then OFBiz becomes overly large.
>
> There needs to be a section on the OFBiz site for vertical apps, and a 
> way for people to download individual vertical components. These 
> vertical components could then install themselves in the components 
> folder.
>
>
> bjfree at free-man.net wrote:
>
>> I have been wrestling with the best way to do what I want and not 
>> effect the
>> basic framework of ofbiz, yet still have it available for download.
>> I am opening a Sourceforge project for add-ons.
>> anyone that has something that David or Andy don't thinks is 
>> appropriate for
>> the ofbiz CVS can have a contrib. section in the ofbizaddon project.
>> Consider it an incubator.  This does not limit what is on the add-ons 
>> CVS
>> from being incorporated directly into ofbiz cvs when the time is 
>> avalible.
>> This is where I will be putting most of my stuff.
>> if it is alright with David and Andy, I will would like to continue 
>> using
>> this mailing list instead of diluting communications.
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