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More than 54,000 Projects Downloaded from GXOpen

The projects shared in GXOpen save development time, explains Cristhian Gómez, one of the most active users, who proposes to create an Unauthorized GeneXus Bible

At GXOpen, users transform the GeneXus business objects in projects that can be freely used by other members of the community. Business objects are pieces of a knowledge base that enable developers to have part of the application code already done.

More than 54,000 downloads have been made from the Web site www.gxopen.com. This site has everything, from the utility program needed to carry out a specific operation to full GeneXus knowledge bases.

Cristhian Gómez is one of the most active users of the GXOpen community that involves 9,000 people. He works in the support and development area of BNC Informatics, and says he never begins to work on a new project without first visiting GXOpen.

He became a member of the community when GeneXus 7.5 was released. He wanted to work with examples of the new features offered by the tool, such as XML management. "Sometimes, the programmer needs somebody to take an interest in what he does, somebody to give an opinion and collaborate," he explains.

"When I have to do something, I first take a look at GXOpen to check if it hasn't been done already," states Gómez. "I've found some features that have saved me a lot of developing time. For example, the possibility of validating e-mail addresses, the auto-number property, and the identity card number authentication," he points out.

As it has been so useful to him, he concludes there must be people in the same situation, and therefore uploads his own projects to the GXOpen Web site. He has shared 14 projects with the GXOpen community. The largest project, the one that took more developing time, was an email client. It was not the most popular project, though. "You use a nice title for a project and everybody downloads it, but it's only three code lines long," he says, referring to another of his projects, called Splash. The DBMS manuals he uploaded were also very popular. He uploaded them at the GXOpen Web site because he had become very frustrated when searching Database manuals.

His most recent proposal is to build an Unauthorized GeneXus Bible. "The idea is to document everything about GeneXus to spread the tool," he explains. GeneXus offers a lot of technical information, but people need things told like a story, so the idea is to use another language to document everything related to GeneXus, from its beginning to the last version features, he points out.

The collaboration among the GXOpen community goes beyond the fact of sharing code lines. Consultations among users are common. Gómez says that he has received questions he didn't have the answers for, but he conducted the necessary research to be able to reply.

 

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