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David E Jones Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:43:30 -0800

Yeah, it's a lot easier when it's not your first time... it DOES get more boring though. ;)

Seriously though, getting the technical part of OFBiz is easy, one with knowledge of the underlying technologies (like webapps, databases, etc) can usually be productive in a few weeks. On the business side of things (ie the applications and specialpurpose directories) things are a LOT more complicated. I usually tell people to give themselves 1-4 years, depending on how they dive into it and how much experience they have with business processes and practices (and I very much do NOT mean the practices of a particular company, but general practices, which are often very different... people make very funny decisions sometimes thinking it is the "only" way).


-David


On Nov 2, 2007, at 9:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hmmm, well BJ, this can be a real plumbing nightmare. I have wasted the entire day trying to track down why processCreditReturn was being run twice
for the same transaction (Opentaps code).  I knew fairly soon that
updateReturnHeader service was the culprit, but it took a long time to track
down the sequence of SECA events that caused it because one SECA was
triggering another and so on. A nightmare to troubleshoot if you don't live
and breath this code.  There were three hundred lines of log entries
involved for this single transaction and I had to go check what the service code did causing another SECA to be triggered and then on the the next and
so on.

But, at least I wasn't bored.

Skip

-----Original Message-----
From: BJ Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:10 PM
To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
Subject: Re: /framework/example


there was some discussion when I brought this up a few years ago.
My impression it was not received well. As can be seen by the code
changes and not many comments.
I believe I saw a jira that someone is adding it to the Webtools so you
look up a service and the associated SECAS's

should not be hard if you follow the code that loads the SECAS and
figures out which one to use.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following on 11/2/2007 5:34 PM:
BJ
You are not alone here. Ofbiz is a great huge beast that unless you have lived with it for years, you cannot possibly comprehend it all. Sadly, comments, and examples are fairly minimal. Fortunately, documentation is
slowly improving.  Now if everyone would just comment the heck out of
their
work, over time, things will improve.

The biggest problem I see is in the use of SECAs.  Things happen with
these
bad boys that have you have no idea of unless you happened to write the
thing.

Skip

-----Original Message-----
From: BJ Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 7:07 PM
To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
Subject: /framework/example


I am sometime, a slow dumb witted learner.
I have to have examples, and most importantly something that ties things
to gather step by step, from a code point on view.

I have been looking for a way to put this down for others that have a
hard time figuring things out.

here is an example.

in the /framework/example/webapp/example/WEB-INF/web.xml

I would like to see




   <context-param>
<param-name>localDispatcherName</param-name><param-value>example</ param-valu
e>
<description>A unique name used to identify/recognize the local
dispatcher for the Service Engine</description>
   </context-param>


<param-name>entityDelegatorName</param-name><param-value>default</ param-valu
e>
<description>The Name of the Entity Delegator to use, defined in
entityengine.xml</description>
   </context-param>

I am willing to add what I have learned this way into the example.
Hopefully others will do the same

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