ADempiereForge

This Wiki is read-only for reference purposes to avoid broken links.

The Idea: Creating an ADempiere plugin bazaar

Be warned! This is currently in draft mode only and due to frequent changes... and of course it is a proposal at this moment... the final version - if the whole plugin idea is accepted by the community - is to be released during or shortly after the conference in Berlin...

Some developers are currently working on an OSGi Integration in ADempiere. One of the results of our recent get-together with Red1 and Trifon at our company site in Luenen / Germany was that it would be nice to have a place where interested developers can easily exchange knowledge, ideas and information about OSGi and possible plugins for ADempiere. The long-term vision is to create an ADempiere Core with a mature, stable and defined functionality and to extract as much as possilble of the functionality to plugins that could be easily deployed or undeployed inside an ADempiere installation without the need to compile the core over and over again.

The long-term vision for this specific wiki page is that it might grow to become a rich bazaar of dozens oder even hundreds of high-quality OSGi-plugins for ADempiere - hence the visionary name of "ADempiereForge"...

So, for starters let's define a possible page structure...

Where to start

Jörg Viola is working on a streamlined development environment based on Eclipse. Eclipse was chosen due to the fact that the Equinox framework, which is a vital part of the current OSGi integration, is well-integrated into Eclipse. Once this is done, any help would be appreciated to get this running with NetBeans, too...

What you ought to know

Here we are going to place some basic information about OSGi in general and the plugin development for ADempiere in detail.

Before you make entries in one of the following lists

You should point out a strategy on how to get things done if you propose functionality here - at least for the more complex features and functionalities. Don't let this evolve to a list of wishes. Let's create a forum on sourceforge where users as well as implementors and developers can freely speak about their wishes and coolest ideas, and publish them here once you have an idea on how to start - or, of course, if you already have finished.

Current ADempiere functionality that can / should be extracted and refactored to become a plugin

Name	Status and obstacles	Developers	Comment

Current ADempiere contributions that can / should be refactored to become a plugin

Name	Status and obstacles	Developers	Comment
Libero Manufacturing	locate and refactor all relevant changes which have impacted the ADempiere core within the Libero branch	Jörg Viola, Trifon	hopefully, Victor Perez will aid on the functional aspects as they arise

Caveat: The task of locating and refactoring all changes which have impacted the ADempiere core is of course a common and probably complex task for most of the sophisticated contributions one would propose to convert to a plugin.

Desired ADempiere functionality that is not available yet but would be nice to have as a plugin

Name	Status and obstacles	Developers	Comment

What else

Once this is acknowledged and published, feel free and encouraged to propose changes and improvements. This, of course, is encouraged throughout the whole project.