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Scala is a viable alternative to Java. This guide shows how easy it is to develop ADempiere ERP customisations in Scala. Introduction Scala is becoming an increasingly popular language and for many companies/developers it's a superior alternative to Java. ADempiere open source ERP/CRM , is written in Java but since Scala runs on JVM and has very good Java interoperability, it's very easy to customise ADempiere with Scala. We'll see how it can be done. Prerequisites The only things you're going to need is ADempiere binaries.  You can either download them from SourceForge or build it directly from source with RUN_build (at the time of this writing 3.7.0LTS was the latest). JDK 1.6 Scala 2.10.x  (at the time of this writing 2.10.2 is the latest) SBT 0.12.x (at the time of this writing 0.12.4 is the latest) Project Template I have created a template project which is hosted on github to speed up things for people. First clone it: git clone https://github.com/bahm...

Summary of a meeting with people at foss.ir about ADempiere. Today I was at a meeting at foss.ir office. It was my first time and I was kind of surprised when I met the head, Mr. Ebadi; I was expecting a somehow old know-it-all guy but he was young. Later on I realised that it's an advantage that he's young: he's active! No offence to the older ones but it's just the norm, you know! Before starting the talk another member joined us: Mr. Maddahi; another young motivated person. It was almost a long meeting; we talked about 3 hours and the main topic was how to promote open source in Iran. They have alreay been active for about 4 years but mainly concentrating on the open source backbone software specially Linux. Promoting open source software requires both enough enthusiasts to work on open source projects and enough jobs for them to make their ends meet. So it's a two-way movement: grasping and motivating enthusiasts while convincing and motivating the entre...