OFBiz Joins Apache

For those that haven’t heard yet, OFBiz has exited the Apache Incubator and is noxw a full fledged top level project. As one of the mentors, I’m very excited for their success. Though quite honestly the OFBiz team barely needed the mentors. I was regularly impressed with their commitment to the incubation process, and the openness, dedication and thoroughness of their efforts. They became models to me of how Apache’s Incubator can work.

If you aren’t familiar with OFBiz (the Apache Open For Business Project) you should take a look. OFBiz provides a large collection of software for ecommerce, ERP, and other “business automation” systems. It’s developed in Java but is not a typical J2EE app (no EJBs for example). The project makes a great addition to Apache and showcases the work of many other open source projects.

Congrats to the OFBiz team!