Re: Framework Independence

Posted by BJ Freeman on Aug 13, 2006; 8:59pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Framework-Independence-tp170631p170639.html

Ok so you meant in any folder under the Ofbiz_home folder. or is that
now going to be ApacheOfizFrameWork_Home.


David E. Jones sent the following on 8/13/2006 12:46 PM:

>
> I think I see what you mean... When I wrote "drop their apps into the
> framework" I was not referring to the framework directory, but rather to
> the Apache OFBiz Framework, which is everything in SVN except the
> "applications" directory.
>
> So no, this doesn't mean any change in patterns of where to put your
> add-in components. They can go in the hot-deploy directory, or anywhere
> you want to put them and then refer to them from the component-load.xml.
>
> -David
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2006, at 1:34 PM, BJ Freeman wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>> You lost me... could you re-phrase the question?
>>> -David
>>> On Aug 13, 2006, at 9:33 AM, BJ Freeman wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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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