We are planning to add a “who is using vaadin” or “built with vaadin” page to the site where people would be able to add short (300 characters or so) long “use cases” that would say:
what Vaadin is used for
who is using the solution (built with Vaadin)
who built it
(optionally) possibility to add screenshots or link to screen cast
(optionally) possibility to link to the solution/product itself
Would this fulfill the your need? If so - who would be interested in telling about the solutions they have built?
All what you see in screenshots are perfectly working. We are focusing our development, now, on security (permissions, roles, groups) because it’s the basis.
The next steps, and thanks to the productivity of Vaadin, will be functionalities.
Wow, nice app! Creatinga whole ERP is not a light task. Which parts of an ERP are you focusing on? I could at least spot manufacturing, inventory management and sales & distribution from the screenshots. Do you have a ready backend and just doing a new user interface for it, or did you start completely from scratch?
Thank you for your encouragements.
We are focusing our development on doing things step by step. The application is a Database driven model so all the application’s logic is in the database (even menus and windows are in tables in the Database).
We have nearly finished with the Database (Tables, Functions and triggers) and now we are moving forward with user’s interface for all the features.
Yes we started our application from scratch but we took some other open source ERP applications as model (like xTuple, a desktop ERP application).
Before Vaadin, we started to use other frameworks like ExtJS, ExtGWT and SmartGWT.
But because of the licenses and Javascript (my team is Java skilled), the natural choice was
Vaadin .
As we go along, we will provide you our work progress.
No real specifications. Most of the OS CRMs I’ve come across are too slow and unusable. Anything that is real RIA and lets you easily search, edit and find the things you are using in different stages of the salesprocess is a plus. I wouldn’t go so far as to write any specs as I’m not a real usability engineer, but already the fact that yours is going to be built with a technology that is rich in itself (and it looks nice based on the screenshots) makes me very positive.