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• Configuration.
• Globalization (locale, time zone, currency).
• Logging.
• Security (authentication/authorization).
• Actor Management (profiles, roles - required for security; Actors - people, external services) Think of UML Actor. Required to remove dependency on Party
• Persistence (file system or databaseData Store (entity engine).
• Lang package to provide classes that are fundamental to the framework
• Services.
• Runtime management.

Design Goals

• Single jar file. Ron W. Makes it hard to have collaboration, encourages intermodlue dependencies, makes build slow and test suite too big, makes it hard for developers to replace parts, makes it hard to support multiple lower level alternatives. Would prefer to have 8 separate projects with possibly different teams on some parts programming to agreed interfaces.

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  Ron, what you are describing is the current mess we are trying to fix. Consolidating the closely-coupled components into a single component (and

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  ) is one of the main reasons for the rewrite - that is why it is first on the list of design goals

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• Compact, small memory footprint.
• Scalable from SBCs to enterprise-class ERP systems.
• Reuses existing technologies.

• Easy to configure and maintain.

  Note
  title Design Participants Note
  Please take some to watch this presentation by Joshua Bloch: How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters.

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• Library: OFBiz
• Java package name: org.apache.ofbiz.foundation.actor

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Data Store

• Library: OFBiz Entity Engine, JDBC
• Java package name: org.apache.ofbiz.foundation.persistenceentity

Services

• Library: JMS, Quartz Scheduler
• Java package name: org.apache.ofbiz.foundation.service

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• Library: eHCache
• Java package name: org.apache.ofbiz.foundation.cache

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