Friday, January 25, 2008

Compiere: Building a GWT interface for opensource ERP



The Compiere team is trying to make ERP easier. I had a chance to catch up with Gary Wu, Di Zhao and Chris Sprague of the Compiere engineering team. We talked about their recently shipped open source ERP solution that now includes a GWT-based rich internet interface.

Using GWT was natural for the developers and allowed them to create a highly productive web experience for Compiere users in just a few months of effort. Listen to the Compiere developers discuss their experiences with GWT and see a demo of the new Compiere Web user interface.

5 comments:

  1. They only include the web interface with the "Pro" edition. Not included with open source which is generally quite useless and only for PR purposes (like this blog mention)

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  2. I agree Chris. They are a closed source product faking it as an open source product. I think they should just go proprietary so people looking for a open source ERP solution don't have to waste their time evaluating it.

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  3. Hi Chris and Wilter,

    You are correct that the Compiere web user interface is part of Compiere Professional Edition which has a subscription fee.

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  4. Thanks for a quick review. I will definitely not spend time evaluating their opensource product.

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  5. i want to know is it possible to integrate Compiere 3.2 WEBUI with eclipse...using any server ?
    i am having the licensed version of compiere....

    thanks ...

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