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Re: Framework Independence

Posted by David E Jones-2 on Aug 13, 2006; 8:30am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Framework-Independence-tp170631p170642.html


Okay, the attachments didn't make it. I think I've seen some get  
through so trying to attach a tgz file. If this doesn't work, I'll  
throw it on docs.ofbiz.org.

-David



On Aug 13, 2006, at 1:23 AM, David E. Jones wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
>