building OFBiz from the svn trunk

[tamer sezgin-2]

Hi,
I'm very new to OFBiz, and trying to learn more about it..
I downloaded and run release 4.0 (on Linux/Sun Java 1.6) successfully.

Now, I tried to build and use the svn trunk copy, but I could not succeed.
Although I did not get any error during build and startup, when I try
to access "ecommerce" application I get a lot of error messages.

Am I missing something very basic?
Can I normally expect trunk copy run without major problems?

Thanks,
Tamer

[David E Jones-3]

On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Tamer Sezgin wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm very new to OFBiz, and trying to learn more about it..
> I downloaded and run release 4.0 (on Linux/Sun Java 1.6) successfully.
>
> Now, I tried to build and use the svn trunk copy, but I could not  
> succeed.
> Although I did not get any error during build and startup, when I try
> to access "ecommerce" application I get a lot of error messages.
>
> Am I missing something very basic?

You may be.

> Can I normally expect trunk copy run without major problems?

Yes.

What instructions did you follow to do this? What sorts of error  
messages are you seeing (direct quotes are best)?

As a really rough guess... you may not have loaded the seed and demo  
data (ie "ant run-install").

-David

[tamer sezgin-2]

Hi David,
You're right... I assumed running "ant" with default build target, and
running startofbis.sh would be enough.
After running "ant run-install", it worked..
Thanks.


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:42 PM, David E Jones
<[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Tamer Sezgin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm very new to OFBiz, and trying to learn more about it..
>> I downloaded and run release 4.0 (on Linux/Sun Java 1.6) successfully.
>>
>> Now, I tried to build and use the svn trunk copy, but I could not succeed.
>> Although I did not get any error during build and startup, when I try
>> to access "ecommerce" application I get a lot of error messages.
>>
>> Am I missing something very basic?
>
> You may be.
>
>> Can I normally expect trunk copy run without major problems?
>
> Yes.
>
> What instructions did you follow to do this? What sorts of error messages
> are you seeing (direct quotes are best)?
>
> As a really rough guess... you may not have loaded the seed and demo data
> (ie "ant run-install").
>
> -David
>
>

[JohnHays]

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[Kenneth R Litko]

John,

> Our site makes heavy use of custom quoting, has anyone done a web store
front where the products are built from custom quotes rather than standard
product lists?

We are currently evaluation Ofbiz for our business (www.litkoaero.com) and
I'm also very interested in the quote-to-product that you mention.

With our current store (Miva), we have a PHP app that generates three
things: a string that defines the quote, a price (so the customer can
checkout), and a shipping weight (so the store can calculate shipping).

In Miva, the PHP app simply creates a link that flows through a .htaccess
and assigns those three things to a product which has no predefined
description, price, or weight.

We were also looking at MAS90, which has an add-on called JobOps. I am not
intimately familiar with it, but from what I can understand it allows you to
create product configurators which you can then track, assign, etc in your
ERP system.

I am very interested to see if OfBiz has this capability, and how it would
work. It would be nice to track things directly in the ERP system, and, for
simple things, allow us to auto-create work orders and ready-to-produce
instructions.

Ken Litko
www.litkoaero.com


-----Original Message-----
From: John Hays [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:13 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Evaluating OFBIZ

Hi Everyone,

I've been poking around Ofbiz for about a week and find it very  
intriguing for some projects I would like to undertake.

I would like to ask people's experience / opinions:

Has anyone implemented Ofbiz as the primary accounting system for  
their company?  (Company size?)
Did you find the technology useable out of the box? (After setting up  
chart of accounts, etc.)
Did you need to do customization for basic functionality?
International currency, any issues?
I have done a quick read on most of the FreeMarker manual and have a  
general grasp of how it works.
How is the performance in a customer facing website (eCommerce)?
Is a servlet container such as Tomcat sufficient?
Can you control URL names sufficiently for SEO?
What is a reasonable time to expect designers to get comfortable and  
productive with ftl?
Our site makes heavy use of custom quoting, has anyone done a web  
store front where the products are built from custom quotes rather  
than standard product lists?
Any major issues?
Does the shopping cart handle "attachments" (specifications, artwork,  
etc.) to an order?
As an experiment I have been building a customer load from our current  
site and mostly have it working, except getting the encrypted  
passwords to transfer in a useable form (both MySQL password fields),  
any hints on getting encrypted passwords to move?
Do the PayflowPro, PayPal, UPS, and USPS interfaces work out of the  
box (with configuration) and are they updated to the latest API  
releases?


Any input appreciated.

John D. Hays
Director of Information Technology


www.mavericklabel.com
120 West Dayton Street
Edmonds, WA 98020-4180