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The feedback from the community day survey was that people wanted to have a bit more organisation for the next community day so I'd like to use this page to put down some ideas.

Project Vision and Direction - What do we want to achieve?

Tidy up OFBiz into the following 4 distinct streams.

1 .OFBiz Kernel

Structure: It contains one common component that only contains all the entity definitions (the whole data model) that are currently defined in the various applications; it will also include CRUD or basic and very global/generic services; no user interfaces.

Purpose: To be used with the "OFBiz framework" by users interested in building from scratch user interfaces based on the OFBiz data model and crud services

2. OFBiz Framework

Structure: It includes only the framework components, the tools, hot-deploy and runtime folders;only a few entities are defined (the ones declared by the framework components, of course); no applications, no specialpurpose; the only user interface available ootb is WebTools

Purpose: It provides a framework to build ERP-like applications from scratch; typically a developer will start by running the "ant create-component" task and will then declare the entities, services and screens in the custom component

3. OFBiz Applications

Structure: It contains all the existing applications (except the component delivered as "OFBiz Kernel") with their special services and user interfaces

Purpose: To be used by users interested to running a mostly-ready out of the box solution; to be used with the "OFBiz Framework" and "OFBiz Kernel"

4. OFBiz Special Purpose

Structure: It contains all the existing specialpurpose components with their special services and user interfaces

Purpose: To be used by users interested in specific integrations/solutions solution; to be used with the "OFBiz Framework" and (maybe) "OFBiz Kernel"; the user could use a subset of the specialpurpose components

Potential Community Day Tasks

•  Applications Components Tidy up (as described above)
•  Move all Application Services and Data Model into one catchall component as per diagram  -  Roadmap Diagrams - In Progress  and Draft Applications Roadmap  
•  Some discussions have already taken place and there appears to be some strong benefits for the re-organisation (NOTE: Need to ensure that we have achieved consensus for this work to be done)
• Framework Re-Factor
•  Webhelp Integration
•  Review patches available on Jira
•  Commit patches available on JIRA
  
  

OFBiz Website - What do we want to achieve ?

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