I’ve been biled – hahaha
Finally it’s my turn – I feel so proud, I’d like to thank my mum, dad etc. I know I should feel angry, but instead there’s a certain sense of satisfaction. You know you’ve made it when you’ve been attacked by the BileBlog 
Our poor, gorgeous, deluded Hani has turn his latest bileous attack upon the small, defenseless OFBiz Entity Engine, which our bug tracking product JIRA uses to do it’s persistence. (How’s my imitation Bile-style looking?)
My favourite quote:
Abstraction has long since been cast aside for convenience. This is all good and well, since it makes life easier for developers, and new features and so on become very easy to add.
I have to say that as a real world software developer, often I like finding things that make life easier for my developers and make it faster to add features.
Would we choose the OFBiz EE again if we were starting from scratch? I’m not sure. Our next product, Confluence, is built using Hibernate, which is a really nifty persistence framework (led by an Aussie!). Is it worth the cost to move JIRA over to using Hibernate? I’m not sure – it depends on how we feel about it after finishing Confluence. As they say in the classics – if it ain’t broke, why fix it?
Of course we could switch to using EJBs and then ship a new release once a year instead of once a month (and lose support for deployment in a servlet container), but where’s the fun in that?
(PS You’re buying the sushi this time mate)
