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vibe_erp — Project Progress

Snapshot of where the framework stands today, what's done, and what's next. The detailed plan of record is docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-07-vibe-erp-implementation-plan.md. The architecture is locked in docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-07-vibe-erp-architecture-design.md.

At a glance

Latest version v0.11 (post-P5.5)
Latest commit a8eb2a6 feat(pbc): P5.5 — pbc-orders-sales + first PBC consuming TWO cross-PBC facades
Repo https://github.com/reporkey/vibe-erp
Modules 15
Unit tests 153, all green
End-to-end smoke runs All cross-cutting services + all 5 PBCs verified against real Postgres; reference plug-in returns localised strings in 3 locales; Partner + Location accept custom-field ext; sales orders validate customer + items via the cross-PBC seams in one transaction; state machine DRAFT → CONFIRMED → CANCELLED enforced
Real PBCs implemented 5 of 10 (pbc-identity, pbc-catalog, pbc-partners, pbc-inventory, pbc-orders-sales)
Plug-ins serving HTTP 1 (reference printing-shop, 7 endpoints + own DB schema + own metadata + own i18n bundles)
Production-ready? No. Foundation is solid; many capabilities still deferred.

Current stage

Foundation complete; Tier 1 customization live; first business workflow PBC online. All eight cross-cutting platform services that PBCs and plug-ins depend on are live (auth, plug-in lifecycle, plug-in HTTP, plug-in linter, plug-in DB schemas, event bus + outbox, metadata loader + custom-field validator, ICU4J translator). Five real PBCs (identity, catalog, partners, inventory, orders-sales) validate the modular-monolith template across five different aggregate shapes. pbc-orders-sales is the first PBC to consume TWO cross-PBC facades simultaneously: it injects PartnersApi to resolve the customer AND CatalogApi to resolve every line's item, in the same transaction, while still having no compile-time dependency on either source PBC. The Gradle build refuses any direct dependency between PBCs; Spring DI wires the interfaces to their concrete adapters at runtime. State machine DRAFT → CONFIRMED → CANCELLED is enforced; CONFIRMED orders are immutable except for cancellation.

The next phase continues building business surface area: pbc-orders-purchase, pbc-production, the stock movement ledger that pairs with sales-order shipping, the workflow engine (Flowable), permission enforcement against metadata__role_permission, and eventually the React SPA.

Total scope (the v1.0 cut line)

The framework reaches v1.0 when, on a fresh Postgres, an operator can docker run the image, log in, drop a customer plug-in JAR into ./plugins/, restart, and walk a real workflow end-to-end without writing any code — and the same image, against a different Postgres pointed at a different company, also serves a different customer with a different plug-in. See the implementation plan for the full v1.0 acceptance bar.

That target breaks down into roughly 30 work units across 8 phases. About 20 are done as of today. Below is the full list with status.

Phase 1 — Platform completion (foundation)

# Unit Status
P1.1 Postgres RLS transaction hook N/A — removed by single-tenant refactor
P1.2 Plug-in linter (ASM bytecode scan) ✅ DONE — 7af11f2
P1.3 Plug-in lifecycle: HTTP endpoints, DefaultPluginContext, dispatcher ✅ DONE — 20d7ddc
P1.4 Plug-in Liquibase application + PluginJdbc ✅ DONE — 7af11f2
P1.5 Metadata store seeding ✅ DONE — 1ead32d
P1.6 ICU4J Translator implementation + locale resolution ✅ DONE — 01c71a6
P1.7 Event bus + transactional outbox ✅ DONE — c2f2314
P1.8 JasperReports integration 🔜 Pending
P1.9 File store (local + S3) 🔜 Pending
P1.10 Job scheduler (Quartz) 🔜 Pending

Phase 2 — Embedded workflow engine

# Unit Status
P2.1 Embedded Flowable (BPMN 2.0) + TaskHandler wiring 🔜 Pending
P2.2 BPMN designer (web) 🔜 Pending — depends on R1
P2.3 User-task form rendering 🔜 Pending

Phase 3 — Metadata store: forms and rules (Tier 1 customization)

# Unit Status
P3.1 JSON Schema form renderer (server) 🔜 Pending
P3.2 Form renderer (web) 🔜 Pending — depends on R1
P3.3 Form designer (web) 🔜 Pending — depends on R1
P3.4 Custom field application (JSONB ext validation) ✅ DONE — 5bffbc4
P3.5 Rules engine (event-driven) 🔜 Pending
P3.6 List view designer (web) 🔜 Pending — depends on R1

Phase 4 — Authentication and authorization

# Unit Status
P4.1 Built-in JWT auth + Argon2id + bootstrap admin ✅ DONE — 540d916
P4.2 OIDC integration (Keycloak-compatible) 🔜 Pending
P4.3 Permission checking against metadata__role_permission 🔜 Pending

Phase 5 — Core PBCs

# Unit Status
P5.1 pbc-catalog — items, units of measure ✅ DONE — 69f3daa
P5.2 pbc-partners — customers, suppliers, contacts, addresses ✅ DONE — 3e40cae
P5.3 pbc-inventory — locations + stock balances (movements deferred) ✅ DONE — f63a73d
P5.4 pbc-warehousing — receipts, picks, transfers, counts 🔜 Pending
P5.5 pbc-orders-sales — sales orders + lines (deliveries deferred) ✅ DONE — a8eb2a6
P5.6 pbc-orders-purchase — RFQs, POs, receipts 🔜 Pending
P5.7 pbc-production — work orders, routings, operations 🔜 Pending
P5.8 pbc-quality — inspection plans, results, holds 🔜 Pending
P5.9 pbc-finance — GL, journal entries, AR/AP minimal 🔜 Pending

Phase 6 — Web SPA (React + TS)

# Unit Status
R1 Vite + React + TS bootstrap, login flow, OpenAPI client 🔜 Pending
R2 Identity screens 🔜 Pending
R3 Customize / metadata UIs 🔜 Pending
R4 Per-PBC list/detail/create/edit screens 🔜 Pending

Phase 7 — Reference printing-shop plug-in

# Unit Status
REF.0 Hello-world plug-in (PF4J + Plugin lifecycle + endpoints + own DB) ✅ DONE through v0.6
REF.1 Real BPMN workflow handler (quote → job card) 🔜 Pending — depends on P2.1
REF.2 Plate / ink / press CRUD as customer-style domain ✅ Partial — plate + ink CRUD live (7af11f2)
REF.3 Reference forms + automation rules in plug-in metadata 🔜 Pending — depends on P3.3, P3.4

Phase 8 — Hosted, AI agents, mobile (post-v1.0)

# Unit Status
H1 Instance provisioning console (one process per customer) 🔜 Post-v1.0
A1 MCP server (REST endpoints exposed as AI-agent functions) 🔜 v1.1
M1 React Native skeleton 🔜 v2

What's live right now

These are the cross-cutting platform services already wired into the running framework. Each was built with a real end-to-end smoke test against a Postgres container.

Service Module What it does
Auth (P4.1) platform-security, pbc-identity Username/password login → HMAC-SHA256 JWT (15min access + 7d refresh). Bootstrap admin printed to logs on first boot. Spring Security filter chain enforces auth on every endpoint except /actuator/health, /api/v1/_meta/**, /api/v1/auth/login, /api/v1/auth/refresh. Principal bridges into the audit listener so created_by columns carry real user UUIDs.
Plug-in HTTP (P1.3) platform-plugins Plug-ins call context.endpoints.register(method, path, handler) to mount lambdas under /api/v1/plugins/<plugin-id>/<path>. Path templates with {var} extraction via Spring's AntPathMatcher. Plug-in code never imports Spring MVC types.
Plug-in linter (P1.2) platform-plugins At plug-in load time (before any plug-in code runs), ASM-walks every .class entry for references to org.vibeerp.platform.* or org.vibeerp.pbc.*. Forbidden references unload the plug-in with a per-class violation report.
Plug-in DB schemas (P1.4) platform-plugins Each plug-in ships its own META-INF/vibe-erp/db/changelog.xml. The host's PluginLiquibaseRunner applies it against the shared host datasource at plug-in start. Plug-ins query their own tables via the api.v1 PluginJdbc typed-SQL surface — no Spring or Hibernate types ever leak.
Event bus + outbox (P1.7) platform-events Synchronous in-process delivery PLUS a transactional outbox row in the same DB transaction. Propagation.MANDATORY so the bus refuses to publish outside an active transaction (no publish-and-rollback leaks). OutboxPoller flips PENDING → DISPATCHED every 5s. Wildcard ** topic for the audit subscriber; topic-string and class-based subscribe.
Metadata loader (P1.5) platform-metadata Walks the host classpath and each plug-in JAR for META-INF/vibe-erp/metadata/*.yml, upserts entities/permissions/menus into metadata__* tables tagged by source. Idempotent (delete-by-source then insert). User-edited metadata (source='user') is never touched. Public GET /api/v1/_meta/metadata returns the full set for SPA + AI-agent + OpenAPI introspection.
i18n / Translator (P1.6) platform-i18n ICU4J-backed Translator with named placeholders, plurals, gender, locale-aware number/date formatting. Per-plug-in instance scoped via a (classLoader, baseName) chain — plug-in's META-INF/vibe-erp/i18n/messages_<locale>.properties resolves before the host's messages_<locale>.properties for shared keys. RequestLocaleProvider reads Accept-Language from the active HTTP request via the servlet container, falling back to vibeerp.i18n.defaultLocale outside an HTTP context. JVM-default locale fallback explicitly disabled to prevent silent locale leaks.
Custom field application (P3.4) platform-metadata.customfield CustomFieldRegistry reads metadata__custom_field rows into an in-memory index keyed by entity name, refreshed at boot and after every plug-in load. ExtJsonValidator validates the JSONB ext map of any entity against the declared FieldTypes — String maxLength, Integer/Decimal numeric coercion with precision/scale enforcement, Boolean, Date/DateTime ISO-8601 parsing, Enum allowed values, UUID format. Unknown keys are rejected; required missing fields are rejected; ALL violations are returned in a single 400 so a form submitter fixes everything in one round-trip. Partner is the first PBC entity to wire ext through PartnerService.create/update; the public GET /api/v1/_meta/metadata/custom-fields/{entityName} endpoint serves the api.v1 runtime view of declarations to the SPA / OpenAPI / AI agent.
PBC pattern (P5.x recipe) pbc-identity, pbc-catalog, pbc-partners, pbc-inventory, pbc-orders-sales Five real PBCs prove the recipe across five aggregate shapes (single-entity user, two-entity catalog, parent-with-children partners, master-data+facts inventory, header+lines sales orders with state machine): domain entity extending AuditedJpaEntity → Spring Data JPA repository → application service → REST controller under /api/v1/<pbc>/<resource> → cross-PBC facade in api.v1.ext.<pbc> → adapter implementation. Architecture rule enforced by the Gradle build: PBCs never import each other, never import platform-bootstrap. pbc-inventory is the first PBC to consume one cross-PBC facade (CatalogApi); pbc-orders-sales is the first to consume two simultaneously (PartnersApi + CatalogApi) in a single transaction, proving the modular monolith works under realistic workload.

What the reference plug-in proves end-to-end

The printing-shop reference plug-in is the framework's executable acceptance test. As of 1ead32d it demonstrates everything a real customer plug-in needs except workflow handling:

Plug-in JAR drop → host bootstrap:
  1. PF4J discovers the JAR and reads plugin.yml
  2. PluginLinter ASM-walks every class — passes
  3. PluginLiquibaseRunner applies META-INF/vibe-erp/db/changelog.xml
     → creates plugin_printingshop__plate, plugin_printingshop__ink_recipe
  4. MetadataLoader.loadFromPluginJar reads
     META-INF/vibe-erp/metadata/printing-shop.yml
     → 2 entities, 5 permissions, 2 menus tagged source='plugin:printing-shop'
  5. VibeErpPluginManager calls Plugin.start(context) with a real
     PluginContext (logger + endpoints + eventBus + jdbc all wired)
  6. The plug-in's start() lambda registers 7 HTTP endpoints
  7. Boot completes, app is serving traffic

Live HTTP traffic:
  POST /api/v1/auth/login (admin)                    → 200, JWT
  POST /api/v1/plugins/printing-shop/plates (Bearer) → 201, plate created
  GET  /api/v1/plugins/printing-shop/plates          → list of plates
  GET  /api/v1/plugins/printing-shop/plates/{id}     → fetch by id
  POST /api/v1/plugins/printing-shop/inks            → 201, ink created
  GET  /api/v1/_meta/metadata                        → all 6 entities + 18 permissions
  GET  /api/v1/identity/users (Bearer)               → still works
  GET  /api/v1/catalog/uoms (Bearer)                 → 15 seeded UoMs

This is real: a JAR file dropped into a directory, loaded by the framework, executing customer-specific business logic against its own database tables, exposed via REST. The plug-in code never imports a single internal framework class — and the linter would refuse to load it if it tried.

What's not yet live (the deferred list)

  • Workflow engine. No Flowable yet. The api.v1 TaskHandler interface exists; the runtime that calls it doesn't.
  • Forms. No JSON Schema form renderer (server or client). No form designer.
  • Reports. No JasperReports.
  • File store. No abstraction; no S3 backend.
  • Job scheduler. No Quartz. Periodic jobs don't have a home.
  • OIDC. Built-in JWT only. OIDC client (Keycloak-compatible) is P4.2.
  • Permission checks. Principal is bound; metadata__permission is seeded; the actual @RequirePermission enforcement layer is P4.3.
  • More PBCs. Identity, catalog, partners, inventory and orders-sales exist. Warehousing, orders-purchase, production, quality, finance are all pending.
  • Sales-order shipping flow. Sales orders can be created and confirmed but cannot yet ship — that requires the inventory movement ledger (deferred from P5.3) so the framework can atomically debit stock when an order ships.
  • Stock movement ledger. Inventory has balances but not the append-only inventory__stock_movement history yet — the v1 cut is "set the quantity"; the audit-grade ledger lands in a follow-up that will also unlock sales-order shipping.
  • Web SPA. No React app. The framework is API-only today.
  • MCP server. The architecture leaves room for it; the implementation is v1.1.
  • Mobile. v2.

How to run what exists today

# Bring up Postgres + the plug-in JAR (in background)
docker compose up -d db
./gradlew :reference-customer:plugin-printing-shop:installToDev

# Boot the framework against it
./gradlew :distribution:bootRun

# In another shell:
curl -s localhost:8080/api/v1/_meta/info
curl -s localhost:8080/api/v1/_meta/metadata | jq

# Read the bootstrap admin password from the boot logs, then:
ACCESS=$(curl -s -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -X POST localhost:8080/api/v1/auth/login \
  -d '{"username":"admin","password":"<from-logs>"}' | jq -r .accessToken)

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS" localhost:8080/api/v1/identity/users
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS" localhost:8080/api/v1/catalog/uoms
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS" localhost:8080/api/v1/plugins/printing-shop/plates

Module map

api/api-v1                    PUBLIC CONTRACT — semver-governed
platform/platform-bootstrap   Spring Boot main, props, web filters
platform/platform-persistence Audit base, JPA entities, PrincipalContext
platform/platform-security    JWT issuer/verifier, Spring Security config, password encoder
platform/platform-events      EventBus impl, transactional outbox, poller
platform/platform-metadata    MetadataLoader, MetadataController
platform/platform-i18n        IcuTranslator, RequestLocaleProvider (P1.6)
platform/platform-plugins     PF4J host, linter, Liquibase runner, endpoint dispatcher, PluginJdbc

pbc/pbc-identity              User entity end-to-end + auth + bootstrap admin
pbc/pbc-catalog               Item + Uom entities + cross-PBC CatalogApi facade
pbc/pbc-partners              Partner + Address + Contact entities + cross-PBC PartnersApi facade
pbc/pbc-inventory             Location + StockBalance + cross-PBC InventoryApi facade
                              (first PBC to CONSUME another PBC's facade — CatalogApi)
pbc/pbc-orders-sales          SalesOrder + SalesOrderLine + cross-PBC SalesOrdersApi facade
                              (first PBC to CONSUME TWO facades simultaneously — PartnersApi + CatalogApi)

reference-customer/plugin-printing-shop
                              Reference plug-in: own DB schema (plate, ink_recipe),
                              own REST endpoints, own metadata YAML

distribution                  Bootable Spring Boot fat-jar assembly

15 Gradle subprojects. Architectural dependency rule (PBCs never import each other; plug-ins only see api.v1) is enforced by the root build.gradle.kts at configuration time.

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