Posted by
J Aaron Farr on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-OFBiz-and-ASF-tp137285p137287.html
On 2/7/06, David E. Jones <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> So, we're looking at a number of options for this. We would like to
> use Geronimo going forward for technical and community reasons. We
> may try to use it in an embedded mode, or we may change to have
> everything in OFBiz load through JMX wrappers instead of the current
> container stuff that is part of OFBiz. This would hopefully make it
> easier to deploy OFBiz in any app server that supports JMX. Both of
> these options need some work, though Andy already has some partial
> work done on JMX wrappers for everything. There are still some issues
> there, and because there is no standard way of adding to the
> classpath with JMX or anything else in app servers, that is still an
> issue...
I'd be interested in better understanding what needs to happen here
and perhaps I can help out.
> For other LGPL jars, like JasperReports and Shark and such, we have
> things in SVN that use them but the libraries are not included and
> the code that uses them is not build or used by default. For more
> information on these see the OPTIONAL_LIBRARIES files in the ofbiz
> home directory. Right now these libraries are in the specialized/
> libraries directory. We may try to make sure some central place like
> this exists for these libraries so you can be sure to get the right
> version of them and such. This will probably remain in the SVN
> repository on the Undersun server, which is where everything is now.
The (still-unofficial) ASF licensing policies should allow for users
to explicitly specify an option during build or perhaps deployment to
include non-ASL products that may be in the user's environment but not
included with the ASF product.
--
jaaron
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