Is ofbiz restart is still needed?

[Mukhtar]

Everytime I make a change to java code, I run "ant" and then restart the ofbiz service to pick up the changes.

Is this still necessary?  I am running 9.  What about 12.x

[Jad El Omeiri]

Hi Mukhtar,

Yes every time you change java code, you have to run ant again.

What I have learnt to do is write my services & events in groovy instead of java. In that case no ant and no restart!

Mukhtar wrote

Everytime I make a change to java code, I run "ant" and then restart the ofbiz service to pick up the changes.

Is this still necessary?  I am running 9.  What about 12.x

Cheers,

[taher]

Hi

In my experience restart is needed in the following cases:
- change in service definition (XML) and not necessarily implementation.
- change in java code
- change in entity model
- change in properties files especially things like caching and main
properties
- change in ofbiz component loading and definitions files (XML)

I think everything else is pretty much dynamic.

Cheers,
Taher Alkhateeb

[Jacques Le Roux]

You don't need to restart for a property change, just clear the property cache (or all caches if you don't care)

I even recently created a FAQ entry for it
See at bottom of https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/FAQ+-+Tips+-+Tricks+-+Cookbook+-+HowTo

Jacques

Le 27/05/2014 14:42, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit :

> Hi
>
> In my experience restart is needed in the following cases:
> - change in service definition (XML) and not necessarily implementation.
> - change in java code
> - change in entity model
> - change in properties files especially things like caching and main
> properties
> - change in ofbiz component loading and definitions files (XML)
>
> I think everything else is pretty much dynamic.
>
> Cheers,
> Taher Alkhateeb
>

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[james_sg]

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Mukhtar wrote

Everytime I make a change to java code, I run "ant" and then restart the ofbiz service to pick up the changes.

Is this still necessary?  I am running 9.  What about 12.x