[OFBiz] Users - Question:The Ofbiz3.1 deploy in Jboss4.0.4?

[Daniel Kunkel]

Hi

Just to throw out a crazy idea...  has anyone considered contacting the
developers of Minerva to see if they would sign an iCLA so OFBiz could
stay with it as we transition to Apache licensing?




On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 15:31 +0200, David Welton wrote:
> > server like JBoss. On this topic, to be honest with you, some of my
> > coworkers and I are not happy at all with the current trend OFBiz is
> > approaching: "the Geronimo jump", this is how we call it. OFBiz is/was
> > good as it is/was, easily configurable, easy to install, easy to start,
> > easy to debug, easy to *demonstrate*, no app server dependencies, easy
> > to scale, etc. Now, Geronimo will add a new set of rules and concerns,
> > some of them very specific, such as: app server configuration,
> > clustering, distributed session management, monitoring and control,
> > etc., nevertheless the classpath issues (read here nightmare) you may
> > encounter if you want to build your own "nested" app inside OFBiz. I
> > personally believe that this "jump" is more a political one than a
> > strategical one and I hope David and Co. here ;) will take the best
> > decision. As far as we (my team and I) are concerned, the first thing
> > we'll do when Geronimo+Ofbiz package will be ready, will be to ..
> > un-pack it, and use OFBiz standalone :) unless there are very strong
> > advantages in using Geronimo....
> 
> The move to the ASF should impact things as little as possible, but
> unfortunately, there are some licensing issues involved.  One of the
> ways you can help ensure that OFBiz does what you want is to help out
> the developers.  David Jones commented on this a bit on the -dev list
> last month:
> 
> http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/dev/2006-March/010036.html
> 
> I'm 99% sure that David and the other core guys wouldn't refuse help
> in attempting to pull out the necessary components from Geronimo, so
> that OFBiz doesn't need to be included 'inside' it.
> 
> Ciao,
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