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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:32:07 +0530
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Subject: Re: ofbiz on mobile & embedded devices
From: tony marcus <tony.marcus1980@gmail.com>
To: user@ofbiz.apache.org, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.roux@les7arts.com>
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Well Jacques, this is one our plan-Bs to have a mobile-client built
from ground-up around jPOS (since its distribution jar size is also
very small i.e. ~700KB, though not sure again if it supports mobile
devices) in case ofbiz thing doesn't work for us. Please suggest!!

regards,
Tony Marcus

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Jacques Le Roux
<jacques.le.roux@les7arts.com> wrote:
> The POS is built to work in such situation. But it's really built around
> JavaPOS and I don't know if you can adapt it to this use
> case. Because of course it needs a DB (hence a hard disk) and at the very
> least 256 MB of RAM (not sure 256 will even be sufficient)
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "tony marcus" <tony.marcus1980@gmail.com>
>>
>> I understand your apprehensions BJ, but the disconnected-mode is one
>> of the main requirements/features that my client wants to have built
>> in to his project so we are really looking towards having it worked
>> out. Any suggestion/clue/hint in this regard will really be helpful
>> for us.
>>
>> regards,
>> Tony Marcus
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:34 AM, BJ Freeman <bjfree@free-man.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> this has been a problem since the days of multiuser databass.
>>> I recommend you steer away from having disconnnected system.
>>>
>>>
>>> =========================
>>> BJ Freeman
>>> Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation
>>> <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/control/forum?forumId=SUPPLYCHAIN>
>>>
>>> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com>
>>> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist
>>>
>>> Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man
>>>
>>> tony marcus sent the following on 6/22/2011 7:40 PM:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks for info. tips, Jacques.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose the WebPOS of OFBIZ will have to run a ofbiz app-server and
>>>> all the mobile client will access it through Internet by any means,
>>>> right!! but here we have scenarios where the mobile-clients can in
>>>> disconnected mode (due to diff. reasons). How to tackle such
>>>> situations?
>>>>
>>>> Please guide.
>>>>
>>>> best regards,
>>>> Tony Marcus
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Jacques Le Roux
>>>> <jacques.le.roux@les7arts.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> There was a 1st attempt some years ago: specialpurpose/hhfacility it's
>>>>> far
>>>>> from what you can have now on mobiles
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are looking for POS on such devices, then you should rather have
>>>>> a
>>>>> look at WebPos than POS which is really designed for Point Of Sell
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess you could use jQuery Mobile or of course plenty of other
>>>>> tools...
>>>>>
>>>>> Jacques
>>>>>
>>>>> From: "tony marcus" <tony.marcus1980@gmail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the suggestion, Adrian.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thats what we already have as a backup plan but then we won't able to
>>>>>> leverage the functionalities that ofbiz gives ootb including data
>>>>>> sync'ing. I know ofbiz is a server kind of thing but can't we have
>>>>>> some kind of smaller/reduced ver. of it which can run mobile devices?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>> Tony Marcus
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Adrian Crum
>>>>>> <adrian.crum@sandglass-software.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You would be better off Keeping OFBiz on a server and create a mobile
>>>>>>> device
>>>>>>> portal in OFBiz. In other words, just have the device browse OFBiz.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Adrian
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 6/21/2011 1:29 PM, tony marcus wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We are quite new to ofbiz but feature wise it seem to have almost
>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>> the functionality that we need. But there are few issues which we
>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>> not sure on how to resolve.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Requirement here is to build a client application based on ofbiz
>>>>>>>> framework which is targeted to mobile devices and embedded devices.
>>>>>>>> So
>>>>>>>> the first issue is framework's size itself, which quite huge for
>>>>>>>> mobile devices. Please suggest on how to reduce that to as small as
>>>>>>>> possible. If not, then at least can just the POS client part of it
>>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>>> extracted and made run on mobile/embedded devices?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Secondly, since it has to on run mobile devices we need to compile
>>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>> using j2me, but that not not happening. Please suggest on how to do
>>>>>>>> that or if there is any other implementation of Java SDK that can
>>>>>>>> help?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance and looking forward your replies.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>>>> Tony Marcus
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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