Moqui/Mantle Update

[David E Jones <de...@me.com>]

The first production-ready/stable release of Moqui Framework (version
1.0.0) is now available through SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/moqui/files/

There is a download there that includes a preview of the Mantle project.
Mantle is basically a data model and service library. The data model is
basically complete at this point (much thanks to Jacopo and others who
have provided feedback and ideas about improvements and general ideas
for the data model).

I also spent a little time porting to entity definitions from OFBiz
10.04 to Moqui so that you can run the Moqui tools against an OFBiz
10.04 data. This includes some handy things that never made it into
OFBiz itself, including:

- Auto Screens with tabs for each "master" entity, much like the OOTB
screens in OFBiz but automatically generated on the fly
- A simple Data View (and export) tool to select fields from a master
entity and all of its related entities, specify functions, and view the
results (or export as CSV)
- Export tools that support exporting a specific record plus its related
records (limited to the number of relationship hops specified); this can
be used for things like exporting a Product or OrderHeader with all of
their related records

The port of these OFBiz artifacts to run on Moqui is available on GitHub
here:

https://github.com/jonesde/moqui_ofbiz_10_04

In short, Moqui is to the point where a port of OFBiz including services
and screens could be done as well... bringing up the conversation from a
few months ago. If anyone is interested in that, please let me know. If
there is enough interest in that I'd be happy to help out.

The approach I'm planning for an ERP/etc based on Moqui is to clean up
every layer as we go. The initial cleaned up version of the data model
is available in the Mantle project (the UDM part of it). The service
layer of Mantle (USL) is coming along, with some basic services needed
for an ecommerce site. Building a simple ecommerce site to flesh out
that part of the Mantle service library is one of the projects I'm
working on right now (called POP Commerce, also available on GitHub).

Comments, etc, etc welcome...

-David