Re: Framework Independence

Posted by BJ Freeman on Aug 13, 2006; 10:07pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Framework-Independence-tp170631p170641.html

Thanks for clarifying this. Neat.


David E. Jones sent the following on 8/13/2006 1:07 PM:

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> Actually, with the component loader the components can be anywhere. They
> don't have to be under the ofbiz directory. The home directory will
> always be "ofbiz.home", that is the name of the Java env var that is
> populated with it.
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> -David
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> On Aug 13, 2006, at 1:59 PM, BJ Freeman wrote:
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>> Ok so you meant in any folder under the Ofbiz_home folder. or is that
>> now going to be ApacheOfizFrameWork_Home.
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>> 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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