Questions about Opentaps

[Christian Carlow <ch...@gmail.com>]

Whenever new features or improvements are requested for OFBiz, sometimes 
someone recommends looking at OpenTaps to see if and how it is 
implemented there.

I downloaded OpenTaps last month and had compilation issues related to 
framework/base code that was changed around 2 years ago on the OFBiz 
trunk.  I assume this means that parts of OpenTaps haven't been updated 
in years.  I never got around to resolving the compilation errors.

I assume this means that if functionality exists Opentaps that should 
also exist in OFBiz then much of the code could be subject to changes 
that conform to changes made to OFBiz since the revisions being used 
within Opentaps.  Is anyone running Opentaps to determine functionality 
differences.

I'm still not exactly sure why Opentaps would include any functionality 
that wouldn't be included in OFBiz.  I understand that Opentaps might 
use things like JasperReports which shouldn't be included in OFBiz but 
for things such as OFBIZ-5282 for introducting accounting ledger 
segmentation it seems such functionality would have been implemented in 
OFBiz.

Re: Questions about Opentaps

[Pierre Smits <pi...@gmail.com>]

Hi Christian,

While that product will have its merits too, your posting here is an
argument for choosing OFBiz over it.

Thanks, and regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Adrian Crum <
adrian.crum@sandglass-software.com> wrote:

> It's a long story. Opentaps had a financials module before OFBiz. That
> module stayed local to Opentaps - it was not contributed back to the main
> project. Then the OFBiz community created its own financials module. So,
> the two are incompatible.
>
> In summary, Opentaps is an OFBiz fork that has, over the years, moved away
> from the OFBiz framework and toward other technologies/designs. They are
> going in a different direction - so there is no effort to contribute back
> to the OFBiz project.
>
> Adrian Crum
> Sandglass Software
> www.sandglass-software.com
>
>
> On 12/20/2013 7:35 AM, Christian Carlow wrote:
>
>> Whenever new features or improvements are requested for OFBiz, sometimes
>> someone recommends looking at OpenTaps to see if and how it is
>> implemented there.
>>
>> I downloaded OpenTaps last month and had compilation issues related to
>> framework/base code that was changed around 2 years ago on the OFBiz
>> trunk.  I assume this means that parts of OpenTaps haven't been updated
>> in years.  I never got around to resolving the compilation errors.
>>
>> I assume this means that if functionality exists Opentaps that should
>> also exist in OFBiz then much of the code could be subject to changes
>> that conform to changes made to OFBiz since the revisions being used
>> within Opentaps.  Is anyone running Opentaps to determine functionality
>> differences.
>>
>> I'm still not exactly sure why Opentaps would include any functionality
>> that wouldn't be included in OFBiz.  I understand that Opentaps might
>> use things like JasperReports which shouldn't be included in OFBiz but
>> for things such as OFBIZ-5282 for introducting accounting ledger
>> segmentation it seems such functionality would have been implemented in
>> OFBiz.
>>
>>
>>

Re: Questions about Opentaps

[Adrian Crum <ad...@sandglass-software.com>]

It's a long story. Opentaps had a financials module before OFBiz. That 
module stayed local to Opentaps - it was not contributed back to the 
main project. Then the OFBiz community created its own financials 
module. So, the two are incompatible.

In summary, Opentaps is an OFBiz fork that has, over the years, moved 
away from the OFBiz framework and toward other technologies/designs. 
They are going in a different direction - so there is no effort to 
contribute back to the OFBiz project.

Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com

On 12/20/2013 7:35 AM, Christian Carlow wrote:
> Whenever new features or improvements are requested for OFBiz, sometimes
> someone recommends looking at OpenTaps to see if and how it is
> implemented there.
>
> I downloaded OpenTaps last month and had compilation issues related to
> framework/base code that was changed around 2 years ago on the OFBiz
> trunk.  I assume this means that parts of OpenTaps haven't been updated
> in years.  I never got around to resolving the compilation errors.
>
> I assume this means that if functionality exists Opentaps that should
> also exist in OFBiz then much of the code could be subject to changes
> that conform to changes made to OFBiz since the revisions being used
> within Opentaps.  Is anyone running Opentaps to determine functionality
> differences.
>
> I'm still not exactly sure why Opentaps would include any functionality
> that wouldn't be included in OFBiz.  I understand that Opentaps might
> use things like JasperReports which shouldn't be included in OFBiz but
> for things such as OFBIZ-5282 for introducting accounting ledger
> segmentation it seems such functionality would have been implemented in
> OFBiz.
>
>