If you are new to OFBiz, or come from an OFBiz version whic
Deprecated
This is quite deprecated now (2021/02/05)
h uses Ant for building and you now want to use a newer version with Gradle, here is the documentation you are looking for.
This is for the trunk and releases post R16.11. If you are looking for the same for a R16.11 releases see From Ant to Gradle - R16.11 version
Step-by-step guide
- If you used to run one of the download-* Ant targets (download-PG-JDBC, download-activemq, download-mySQL-JDBC) those have been removed.
See - OFBIZ-7793Getting issue details... STATUS if interested in more details - If you use your own custom libs (jar) shared by several of your own components you might put these libs in the lib folder just under the OFBiz root folder.
You will find a README there with more details. You might also read - OFBIZ-7910Getting issue details... STATUS for history reason. - It's clearly documented in the README.MD and below, but you might be interested to know that the debug port is now the standard 5005 rather than previously the OFBiz specific 8091
- If you are interested by all the changes done in the context of the Ant to Gradle migration please check - OFBIZ-7534Getting issue details... STATUS .
Surviving Corporate Environments with Gradle - Gradle Summit 2016
I thought it would be interesting to share this (disclaimer: maybe some parts are already obsolete):
Gradle documentation
The documentation bloc below is the HTML import of the conversion of the main README.adoc (in OFBiz root) into HTML by Asciidoctor
asciidoctor README.adoc -o tools/wiki-files/README.htm
Here is README.html in the repository that you are reading below
Related articles
Gradle Plugins that could be used to improve OFBiz code
Style
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/checkstyle_plugin.html
Bugs
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/findbugs_plugin.html
Better code
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/pmd_plugin.html
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/jdepend_plugin.html
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/codenarc_plugin.html
Tests coverage
https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/org.sonarqube
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/jacoco_plugin.html