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ivan jefton commented on OFBIZ-5378:
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yes, i understand the bit about not shipping bytecode.

i disagree, however, that what i reported is "not a problem". it IS a problem, 
and you're welcome to disagree (and even overrule) my thought. it's open 
source, after all.

my point, apparently lost, is that following the steps shown in the "quick 
start guide" flat out do not work. not even close. that to me is a problem.

i spent 3 hours working through a variety of documentation, compiling the 
application, loading the sample data (the command for which in the quick start 
guide, by the way, is deprecated), and finally getting a web page to come up. 
sadly, i was unable to log in with admin/ofbiz. after spending another half 
hour or so figuring out how to directly access the derby database, i discovered 
that there are only two users in the user_login table (system, anonymous), and 
neither is enabled.

i'm not a neophyte and i spent much longer on this than a typical user would 
have (in my humble opinion). 

this is not the apache software i'm used to. ant just works. tomcat just works. 
ofbiz, so far, doesn't. 

i have no doubt that the final ofbiz product is fabulous, but at this point it 
seems more like i got a wonderful bag of parts (sans instruction manual) that 
somehow can be put together to make the BMW shown on the front of the box.

> 12.04.02 zip missing ofbiz.jar
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFBIZ-5378
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5378
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: commonext/setup
>    Affects Versions: Release Branch 12.04
>         Environment: windows
>            Reporter: ivan jefton
>            Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
>              Labels: 12.04.02,ofbiz.jar,install,setup
>
> following the demo and test setup guide 
> (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Demo+and+Test+Setup+Guide),
>  i downloaded ver 12.04.02, extracted it to a directory, and attempted to run 
> startofbiz.bat from the ofbiz directory (named apache-ofbiz-12.04.02). no 
> file found.
> searched for the bat file; found it in tools subdir. ran it. couldn't start 
> java from \bin\java.
> set JAVA_HOME and re-ran startofbiz.bat; couldn't find ofbiz.jar. performed 
> dir/s/b ofbiz.jar, file not found.
> apparently the ofbiz.jar file doesn't exist.
> ofbiz.jar should be included in the download.



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