[ofbiz-framework] branch release18.12 updated: Documented: Create a simple INSTALL file with minimum installation information and redirection to more documentation

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commit 742802afbde4d0ca772e486f15a020673c62f2bc
Author: Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]>
AuthorDate: Thu May 14 17:38:28 2020 +0200

    Documented: Create a simple INSTALL file with minimum installation information and redirection to more documentation
   
    (OFBIZ-11691)
   
    Following https://markmail.org/message/xi2bcvnmpdfvfgk2 discussion on dev ML
    here is the file I suggest. If we are OK we can backport it to the supported
    release branches. Of course I'm open to modifications...
   
    Thanks for their answers: Deepak Nigam, Michael Brohl, Pierre Smits and
    Taher Alkhateeb
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+Welcome to Apache OFBiz! A powerful top level Apache software project. OFBiz
+is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System written in Java and houses a
+large set of libraries, entities, services and features to run all aspects of
+your business.
+
+== System requirements
+
+The only requirement to run OFBiz is to have the Java Development Kit (JDK)
+version 8 installed on your system (not just the JRE, but the full JDK) which
+you can download from the below link. Make sure of setting the $JAVA_HOME
+environment variable.
+
+https://adoptopenjdk.net/[JDK download]
+
+
+== Quick start
+
+To quickly install and fire-up OFBiz, please follow the below instructions from
+the command line at the OFBiz top level directory (folder).
+
+=== Download the Gradle wrapper:
+
+MS Windows: init-gradle-wrapper
+Unix-like OS: ./gradle/init-gradle-wrapper
+
+
+=== Prepare OFBiz:
+
+==== Clean system and load the complete OFBiz data
+_______________________________________________________________________________
+Note: Depending on your Internet connection speed it might take a long time
+for this step to complete if you are using OFBiz for the first time as it needs
+to download all dependencies. So please be patient!
+_______________________________________________________________________________
+
+MS Windows: gradlew cleanAll loadAll
+Unix-like OS: ./gradlew cleanAll loadAll
+
+=== Start OFBiz:
+
+MS Windows: gradlew ofbiz
+Unix-like OS: ./gradlew ofbiz
+
+_______________________________________________________________________________
+Note: Ignore the % progress indicator because this task does not end as long
+as OFBiz is running.
+_______________________________________________________________________________
+
+=== Visit OFBiz through your browser:
+
+https://localhost:8443/webtools
+
+== Going further
+To complete your installation and use OFBiz please read README.adoc
+You may prefer to read this AsciiDoc file in HTML format.
+For that simply follow:
+https://asciidoctor.org/docs/convert-documents/#converting-a-document-to-html