Overview
This page is a work-in-progress to document my progress in separating the ofbiz core from the rest of the applications to allow users to focus on using ofbiz as a standalone development framework.
Why?
Ofbiz is a very productive framework for creating enterprise applications. However, installing ofbiz with all of it's OOTB functionality just to use ofbiz as a development framework is a waste of resources. Also, newcomers to ofbiz may be put off by the complexity of ofbiz OOTB.
Ofbiz 9.04
I have chosen to base my instructions on Ofbiz 9.04 and not trunk because 9.04 is stable. Learning a new technology is always easier when working in a stable environment.
Download, install and setup 9.04. If you are unsure how to proceed with this, I recommend reading the ofbiz beginners tutorial
Comment out the following components in $OFBIZ_HOME/applications/component-load.xml
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<component-loader xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ofbiz.apache.org/dtds/component-loader.xsd">
<load-component component-location="commonext"/><!-- common component used by most other components -->
<!--
<load-component component-location="party"/>
<load-component component-location="securityext"/>
<load-component component-location="content"/>
<load-component component-location="workeffort"/>
<load-component component-location="product"/>
<load-component component-location="manufacturing"/>
<load-component component-location="accounting"/>
<load-component component-location="humanres"/>
<load-component component-location="order"/>
<load-component component-location="marketing"/>
-->
</component-loader>
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Comment out the following components in $OFBIZ_HOME/specialpurpose/component-load.xml
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<component-loader xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ofbiz.apache.org/dtds/component-loader.xsd"> <!-- <load-component component-location="ecommerce"/> <load-component component-location="pos"/> <load-component component-location="hhfacility"/> <load-component component-location="assetmaint"/> <load-component component-location="cmssite"/> <load-component component-location="projectmgr"/> <load-component component-location="oagis"/> <load-component component-location="googlebase"/> <load-component component-location="ebay"/> <load-component component-location="myportal"/> <load-component component-location="webpos"/> --> <!-- <load-component component-location="workflow"/> --> <!-- <load-component component-location="shark"/> --> </component-loader> |
Comment out the following compents in $OFBIZ_HOME/framework/component-load.xml
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<component-loader xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ofbiz.apache.org/dtds/component-loader.xsd"> <load-component component-location="geronimo"/> <load-component component-location="entity"/> <load-component component-location="catalina"/> <!-- <load-component component-location="jetty"/> --> <load-component component-location="security"/> <load-component component-location="datafile"/> <load-component component-location="minilang"/> <load-component component-location="common"/> <load-component component-location="service"/> <load-component component-location="entityext"/> <load-component component-location="bi"/> <load-component component-location="webapp"/> <load-component component-location="guiapp"/> <load-component component-location="widget"/> <load-component component-location="appserver"/> <load-component component-location="testtools"/> <load-component component-location="webtools"/> <load-component component-location="webslinger"/> <load-component component-location="images"/> <!-- <load-component component-location="example"/>--> <!-- <load-component component-location="exampleext"/>--> </component-loader> |
Next run the ant target "run-install" and "create-admin-user-login" to populate the database.
If you now startup ofbiz (e.g. using startofbiz.bat/startofbiz.sh) and go to https://localhost:8443/webtoolsand login as "admin / ofbiz", you will find that only the core components are loaded.
At this stage, you don't have a mecanism for adding user logins or for setting user permissions. This functionality will need to be created.
More to follow...
- Creating/Porting CRUD screens for:
- User Login
- Security Group
- Party/Organisation
See also
There is a longer term effort looking at separating the framework, see Framework-only+distribution
Ofbiz as a development framework - release 10.04