When I actually finish, I will do all that stuff. I would say I am about 80% done. Trying to figure out how to make it easily extendible. I will probably use generators to facilitate custom module generation. Once those are done. I will write docs, etc. I may have jumped the gun by posting it here in its current form; Still I thought someone might find it interesting.
That's awesome! I am glad there are people addressing this issue out there. With that said, I have to say that I am not interested in java at all. I think that java is one of the limiting factors of current point of sale systems. I prefer the web based approach and think that this is the future of retail sales. With that said, there are obvious detractions to a web based approach, like having to have an internet connection but I think that is acceptable.
Not necessarily an Internet connection, but definitely a local network. Before we caved in and started using Quickbooks across the board for both invoicing and POS retail in our storefront, the bosses had me whip together a custom POS based on parts of OpenBravo and OpenPOS. I was running a virtualized, modified OpenBravo ERP server that was connected to the front register running a heavily modified OpenPOS front end. It was quirky, buggy, and ugly, but even if we lost Internet we could still operate as long as the LAN stayed up.
Now we're using Quickbooks for everything, because our accounting office wanted easier reporting. It's a nightmare, but at least we have good outside support across the board, instead of me being on call 24/7.
I'd love to give your project a shot in my spare time, and see if it might be useful for inventory management if nothing else. Quickbooks sucks in that area without their expensive add-ons.
