Re: Framework Independence

Posted by BJ Freeman on Aug 13, 2006; 8:34pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Framework-Independence-tp170631p170637.html

You statement about dropping applications in the Framework.
Does that mean we will put the applications in the framework, like use
to be when the applications and framework were all in the components
folder, way back?

David E. Jones sent the following on 8/13/2006 12:17 PM:

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> You lost me... could you re-phrase the question?
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> -David
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> On Aug 13, 2006, at 9:33 AM, BJ Freeman wrote:
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>> clarification:
>> [For those who want to just drop their app into the framework, you can
>> now run just about everything even if the applications directory is
>> not there,]
>> So are you saying that the application, as such will be  now be put
>> into the framework folder, like they use to be in the components folder.
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>> David E. Jones sent the following on 8/13/2006 12:23 AM:
>>> Hello all,
>>> In preparation for doing a release candidate, and later a real
>>> release (soon after incubator graduation), I did a bit of work to
>>> make it possible to run the framework without the applications
>>> directory.
>>> This included a new little feature in the entity engine to be able to
>>> extend entities defined elsewhere using the "extend-entity" tag.
>>> There were also a few things moved from applications to framework,
>>> and from framework to applications. This included some important
>>> things to note that have changed:
>>> - control servlet request events (mainly checkLogin, login, logout,
>>> checkExternalLoginKey, etc) are now in:
>>> org.ofbiz.webapp.control.LoginWorker
>>> - the LoginEventListener (referred to in web.xml files) is now here:
>>> org.ofbiz.webapp.control.LoginEventListener
>>> These have been updated in all of the files in OFBiz so everything
>>> should be working fine... If you run into anything please let me know
>>> and I'll look into it right away!
>>> For convenience (and since doing search and replace it's not really
>>> any extra work... ;) ) attached are some patches for the financials
>>> and crmsfa modules.
>>> This gets us pretty close to ready to do a complete release and a
>>> separate framework-only release. For those who want to just drop
>>> their app into the framework, you can now run just about everything
>>> even if the applications directory is not there, with exception of a
>>> few pages like the entity performance tests in WebTools that refer to
>>> the Party and Product entities and need to be changed, probably to
>>> point to the Example and such entities.
>>> -David
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