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I'm looking for an e-commerce "platform" in Java or .NET that can satisfy the following requirements:
Product / Service Management
Customer Account Management
Shopping Cart
Checkout / Merchant Integration
Localization (especially for currency)
Coupons
Multiple Storefronts
Reporting
Possible PayPal / Google Checkout Integration
The goal here is to integrate this with a RIA written in Adobe Flex. We are comfortable with writing a thin backend layer to support the Flex app, so the solution doesn't require a remotely-accessible API, rather just one that we can invoke from our own backend code.
I used ofbiz for some projects, a joyful experience. It's now under the apache umbrella: http://ofbiz.apache.org/
From the website:
The Apache Open For Business Project
is an open source enterprise
automation software project licensed
under the Apache License Version 2.0.
By open source enterprise automation
we mean: Open Source ERP, Open Source
CRM, Open Source E-Business /
E-Commerce, Open Source SCM, Open
Source MRP, Open Source CMMS/EAM, and
so on
I used it to build an ecommerce application to sell customized products to consumers. I used the webshop part, the production planning and warehouse management.
Beware that it takes some time to dig into this huge framework but depending on your actual needs it will be worth it. There is also decent commercial support by a lot of service providers.
Look at nopCommerce - http://www.nopCommerce.com
Broadleaf Commerce... It's free, open source, and enterprise-class. Version 2.0 is simple to set up and configure out of the box. It also allows you to customize, extend, and integrate in absolutely any way that you need. We were able to get a complex, highly customized site with a large number of custom features, including flash sales and perishable inventory, deployed to production in 6 weeks. http://www.broadleafcommerce.com
SoftSlate Commerce meets nearly all of those requirements (with the exception of multiple storefronts, but you could run separate instances side by side). Full Java source code comes with the $495 Standard Edition license.
we do java development and are using shopizer it is a sales management software and also supports online invoicing
The Beerhouse (OS) for .NET might be worth a look. It's an ASP.NET starter kit, however there is also a paypal commerce kit that accompanies it. I'm not sure about coupons and flex integration however.
All the kits can be found here.
Websphere Commerce Supports almost all of your requirements(except paypal integration).
I tested and trust those (.Net):
aspdotnetstorefront
nopcommerce
Asp.net E-Commerce post and about java my favorite is http://www.konakart.com/
Freeblisket/Weblisket
Both platforms good for what you are looking.
Decision is based on personal preferences and which platform you have experience.
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We are currently in the process of evaluating a BPM engine and I'd really appreciate the community input. I am doing my own due diligence but would also like to hear on the suggestion based on implementation stories.
My main evaluation criteria are below
open source and OEM friendly license
production installations (success stories are a great help)
commercial support available
open standards support - BPMN
dynamic creation/assembly of the workflow based on input
embeddable
Currently I am evaluating Activiti and JBPM. Bonita open BPM seems like a good candidate as well but never used it. Do you guys have any successful deployments on Bonita?
I've just been doing an evaluation of Activiti vs jBPM.
In fact there seems to be very little between the two solutions.
Activiti is Apache V2, jBPM 5.0 is also Apache V2.
We're currently using Activiti, but the project is still in dev, so I can't comment on its robustness in production.
jBPM is beginning the productization process, so support for 5.x will be available in Q1 2012, see slide 32: jBPM demo. jBPM 4 was not supported by Redhat.
jBPM 4.x did not support BPMN 2.0, but 5.x does, Activiti does as well. jBPM 5.0 has just been released, which includes support for BPMN 2.0. So now both solutions support BPMN 2.0.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this, but you can do a lot through both APIs
Again, not sure what you mean by this, do you mean embedded as part of an application server, in which case, yes for both solutions.
One of our criteria for jBPM was the interaction with Guvnor, and when I downloaded and ran the demo install for jBPM (28/03/2011) and there still seemed to be some major bugs (GUVNOR-1274), so I personally would test a lot more before I chose to pursue this solution.
In fact, we will be recommending one of the above two solutions, but we're not sure which yet, we'll look at it more closely later this year.
Although I have little practical experience I did undertake a research spike into java BPM options recently. I narrowed it down to 3:
jBPM
Drools
Roll your own
The Drools community seems more active, tools are better, the rules engine was very sophisticated (as this was the base of drools) but surrounding business process were well integrated. However jBPM was more focused around business processes and slick as well. They are both managed by JBoss
Further comparisons between Drools and JBPM can be found here:
Drools v jBPM
If you have a confident development team and the requirements aren't too complex it is always worth considering rolling your own. BPMs can lead to anaemic domain models (as described in this post Rules Engine pros and cons about rules engines ) as you try adopt your domain models to fit into such systems, also well built systems customised for your business are always going to be more effective.
As far as your criteria goes:
Open-Source and OEM friendly license - Drools uses a liberal 'ASL/BSD/MIT-esque license', community is active. jBPM uses apache, eclipse and MIT licenses
Production Installations. I understand drools is used by many insurance companies and credit checkers, not sure a jBPM
Commercial Support available for both
Open Standards Support - BPMN - Both implement BPMN and due to the nature of the open source projects are very standards orientated.
Dynamic Creation/Assembly of the Workflow based on input. Both, although is generally easily implemented manually.
Eembeddable - both offer entire systems but are modulated so this should suite embedding into existing systems.
My not use an MS stack? WWF 4.0 for the engine, re-hostable designer. WCF for communication. MS Sql Server for BI. Plenty of .NET devs out there to help build and customise. Other than a Windows target, no dependency on an external supplier.
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Closed 11 years ago.
Can any one suggest me the best and reliable CRM Software which is Open Source written Java technologies.
Before I posted this question i did some Search google and Stackoverflow, I am getting the PHP based CRM but I am particularly looking for Java Technology. thanks in dvance
I got the following links
InsideCRM
Java Source - Open Source ERP & CRM Software
manageability.org
Hipergate - Intranet CRM, sales automation, customer service, email marketing, content management, bug tracker, project manager, groupware, calendar, forums, file sharing, directory. Based on Java /JSP for PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server.
OFBiz - The Open For Business Project is an open source enterprise automation software project licensed under the MIT Open Source License. By open source enterprise automation we mean: Open Source ERP, Open Source CRM, Open Source E-Business / E-Commerce, Open Source SCM, Open Source MRP, Open Source CMMS/EAM, and so on.
Ohioedge - Ohioedge CRM Server is an online CRM application designed for $2-500M organizations requiring centralized, multi-functional, enterprise-wide coordination of sales generation (contact management) & fulfillment (business process/workflow management) activities.
Compiere - Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality..
CentricCRM - Centric CRM is a mature, fully featured, Java-based, Web-delivered CRM with contacts, pipeline, accounts, and campaign management, project management, help desk, and admin modules.
CentraView - CentraView delivers browser based Contact Management, Salesforce Automation (SFA), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). CentraView is an Enterprise Java (J2EE) application, that runs on Apache Tomcat, JBoss, and uses the MySQL database by default.
Daffodil CRM - Daffodil CRM's features include integrated email campaigns, customizable views, powerful filtering and automatic mail attachment facility. The One$DB Open Source database provides its back-end.
openCRX - Features include account management, complex legal entities, leads/opportunities tracking, quotes/sales orders, invoices, territory management, complex product catalogs, product pricing/discounting and activity/task management.
SourceTap - SourceTap's CRM application is a highly flexible Sales Force Automation (SFA). In supports standard SFA functionality such as lead, account and opportunity management. In addition it includes Sales Management providing sales reps the capability to develop accurate forecasts, seamlessly share information across sales teams, and configure products and services. Based on OFBiz components.
Cream - A CRM designed specifically to meet the needs of media organizations. Cream is designed to meet the unique demands publishers have, including features that allow subscription management, support for multiple products (print subscriptions, advertising, online subscriptions, books, etc.), customer communications (both incoming and outgoing), and easy-to-use reporting and analytical functions.
Queplix - QueWeb Customer Care solution that focuses specifically on the portion of the Customer Relationship after the Customer has been acquired. The solution is a J2EE application that uses Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for its UI.
Openbravo - Openbravo includes all functionality you would expect of an ERP solution, as well as basic CRM and Business Intelligence. Most of the Openbravo code is automatically generated based on a Data Model Dictionary. The Data Model Dictionary is an extension of Compiere.
Loopfuse - LoopFuse is a marketing and sales automation suite providing organizations the ability to generate leads from their website, score and route leads, marketing campaign capabilities, full web analytics support. LoopFuse also offers the capability to measure ROI within marketing and sales department initiatives. Loopfuse is built on Hibernate, Quartz, JSF and JAAS. It provides plugins for SalesForce.com, SugarCRM and CentricCRM
JFire - JFire is a customizable ERP and CRM that is based on J2EE 1.4, JDO 2.0 and Eclipse RCP 3.2
Eberom - Eberom is a CRM and Project Management solution is built using Tomcat and MySQL. It uses Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Jasper Reports and POI HSSF
Adempiere - The Adempiere project was created in after a disagreement between Compiere Inc., the developers of Compier, and the community that formed around that project
OpenCRX is good looking and has mobile support, also probably the most popular open source CRM in Java.
If you want a broader ERP functionality and tighter integration, Openbravo ERP is a choice, however its CRM functionality seems to be basic.
Your best choice for open source CRM in Java is Alfresco: http://www.alfresco.com/
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I'm developing an Android application and I would really like to deploy it for the iPhone as well.
However, I do not know Objective-C and I think it would take an annoyingly long time to figure that and the Apple framework out.
Is there a recommended way to port an Android application to iOS? Would the best bet be to hire a freelancer?
On the run now (home time ;-) ), so my answer will be concise (sorry)
Take a look at/Google (in no particular order):
MoSync <- Compiles C++ native apps to several mobile platforms, including Android and IOS, GPL for non-commercial projects.
AirplaySDK: Similar to MoSync, mainly commercial, has some free licensing for one of the 2 environments you're after (believe that's IOS, please verify yourself). Has been used comercially by Konami, Activision etc.
OpenFrameworks (OF) - Collections of C++ 'wrapper' code which enables unified cross-platform development of Audio/Visual projects (could be used for Games etc). The Android port is beta, see Android/Eclipse/OF Installation and the Android port's GitHub repository/developer (branch 0062_Android). The iPhone-specific code is quite complete (accelerometer access, etc. etc.).
XMLVM - It allows some level of porting from Java to a native IOS executable. Not sure how far forward this project is, and you might need to implement some of their framework classes (relatively trivial if you've got good separation of your existing Java libs).
Personally, I'm looking at OpenFrameworks right now, mainly as I like the 'One API' concept and I'm avoiding Objective-C for the moment (Want to ease myself in, I'm a Java/C# dev).
Edit: Notice that since this answer was written XMLVM development has stopped. Also Codename One came out in the interim and provides a path for Java developers.
Cheers
Rich
Your best bet for X-plat is HTML 5.
You will not be able to automagically port your native code because Android and iPhone use completely different patterns for developing all aspects of "the app".
Right now I've only seen MonoTouch (now Xamarin) available for cross platform development, which allows you to develop in .NET targetting the iPhone.
I have not seen a similar product for Android, but would a .NET based conversion process be feasible? The pricing is not outrageous.
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Closed 9 years ago.
I know recently Spring 3.0 was released which brought about a nice new set of features and ease of web development with their MVC package. However are there any new frameworks on the horizon and/or new versions of other frameworks that a web developer should have their eyes on?
I heard about the Stripes framework, but it seems as though development has stopped. It also seems grails has a new release coming out as well which that looks like it is just an update to support the new features in the latest groovy release.
Apache Wicket - light-weight component-based web application framework with strong separation of presentation and business logic.
Look also at the Spring Roo and Play framework and I almost forgot about the Vaadin. There are often enough new/upgraded java web frameworks:)
Have a look at JSF with JSR-299 in the Java EE 6 standard. You can do quite a bit, and it is standardized.
Version 2.0 of the Google Web Toolkit was released back in December. Some of the new stuff:
Development Mode: Previously you needed to use a "hosted mode" pseudo browser to quickly test your code (i.e. avoid a compile/deploy step). In 2.0, development mode allows on-the-fly running and debugging in any browser. This give big wins in speed and tooling (you can use Firebug etc.)
Speed Tracer: A plugin for Chrome that gives you highly detailed performance profiling for your GWT (or any) client AJAX code.
Compiler Optimizations: One of the great things about GWT is that the compiler is improved almost with every release meaning that you get a performance boost just by recompiling your code.
Code Splitting: You put 'splits' in your code, allowing the browser to download just the code it needs to get started and download the rest when it's needed (great for apps with very large amounts of client code).
Declarative User Interfaces: Define UIs in XML. Much less boilerplate code. XML<->Java integration via annotations.
Layout Panels: Improved, standards-compliant, base panels.
Bundled Resources: Image bundling from previous resources has been generified to allow any type of resource to be "bundled", reducing the number of requests the browser makes and allowing your app to load more quickly.
GWT works especially well with a good IDE (Eclipse or IntelliJ) since the IDE can take advantage of compile-time information from GWT, validating, on the fly your client code (since it's Java) and also things like CSS class name references and references between XML UI definitions and backing code.
I thought it was worth noting this as I just heard about the new release on java lobby. The
lift framework. It is written in scala, which is java per say.
Appfuse - Not really a framework, but it might be worth a look if you're looking for something to ease the initial ramp up effort on a Java EE project. It provides a bunch of Maven 2 archetypes that will create a "ready to run" application based on any of:
Struts 2
JSF
Tapestry 5
Spring MVC
Struts 2 is also very much worth a look. Totally different animal to Struts.
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To learn from good examples, what are the best open source Google App Engine applications out there?
I don't care if it is Java or Python based.
Please one app per answer. Feel free to add a link to the live app (if there is) and to the project page.
Rietveld of course
I dearly love my App Engine Console. It is a mini-app, a "plug-in" for other applications. It gives you an AJAX Python interpreter that runs on the server—great for development and debugging. Sometimes I use cURL pointed at App Engine Console to run (authenticated) one-off remote Python procedure calls.
(I wrote it, yes, but I use it daily for maintenance of busy sites. It's the first tool I install on new projects and I don't know how I could live without it.)
UserInfuser, a gamification platform: http://code.google.com/p/userinfuser and https://github.com/nlake44/UserInfuser
It can help you add gamification elements to your website (badges and leaderboards). It uses the Channel API for badge notifications.
Khan Academy. One of App Engine's bigger customers.
https://khanacademy.kilnhg.com/Repo/Website/Group/stable/Files
JaikuEngine is probably Google's biggest open source App Engine project.
I really like FoFou which is a simple forum software that I have used.
FoFou is open source and hosted on github.
Partychapp is a Java GAE app using the XMPP services to allow users to create and join chatrooms together.
I really like Bloog, a simple blogging application. Source is on github.
OpenShare (http://openshare.emotionull.com)
http://bitbucket.org/jonromero/openshare/src/
Eezee MVC is An Easy Model, View, Controller Framework for Google App Engine.
Features
Has a Controller Class that does routing, handling and rendering templates.
Your controllers reside in the controllers folder, views (html Django templates) in views folder, models in models folder.
Allows Controller to recieve GET/POST parameters as function arguments.
StackPrinter is a webapp that allows printing of StackOverflow's questions in a Printer-Friendly way.
Source code is on github.
Pubsubhubbub: A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.
http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/