I am working my way through this in the hope that I will end up with a
working system.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide
I have found some information that is wrong or missing. I notice that
the page has not been changed since 2012.
1) It says that you need to have ant installed. That is not enough. You
also need to have ant-apache-regexp or you will get
"java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.Jdk14RegexpRegexp"
2) It says that you should run ant as "ant run-install" but when you do,
the script says that you should have actually run "ant load-demo".
3) There are a lot of warnings about deprecrated methods
4) Not sure if this matters Warning : Module classpath component
'/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64' is not valid and will be ignored...
5) A lot of these: "warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in
conjunction with -source 1.6"
6) Warning that "
/usr/share/tomcat7/webapps/accounting/specialpurpose/scrum/src/org/ofbiz/scrum/ScrumServices.java
uses unchecked or unsafe operations."
7) When trying to follow this "Find the "default" delegator near the
top of the file and change the datasource-name attribute value in the
group-map tag under it to the name of the data source you modified or
created. ", you find that the default delegator has several group-names
commented out and several not commented out. In my case, I want to use
mySQL which is commented out so I changed that and commented out every
other one. The instructions should be a bit clearer about what this
means and what is the right configuration of coments and group-maps.
8) In changing the database, the actual : ${ofbiz install
dir}/framework/entity/config/entityengine.xml file has a note about
making the test delegator match the default. This is missing in the
documentation.
9) The ant run ends with a wonderful combination of a series of warnings
followed by a null pointer and "BUILD SUCCESSFUL" with no tables created
in the mySQL database.
[java] 2014-06-01 01:30:32,232 (main) [
ModelViewEntity.java:551:WARN ] [ExampleStatusDetail]: Conversion for
complex-alias needs to be implemented for cache and in-memory eval stuff
to work correctly, will not work for alias: statusDelay
[java] 2014-06-01 01:30:32,570 (main) [ ModelReader.java:436:INFO
] FINISHED LOADING ENTITIES - ALL FILES; #Entities=863 #ViewEntities=300
#Fields=9049 #Relationships=2961 #AutoRelationships=2186
[java] 2014-06-01 01:30:32,679 (main) [
GenericDelegator.java:234:INFO ] Doing entity definition check...
[java] 2014-06-01 01:30:32,694 (main) [
ModelEntityChecker.java:508:INFO ] [initReservedWords] array length=1023
[java] java.lang.NullPointerException
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.GenericDelegator.getEntityFieldType(GenericDelegator.java:541)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.model.ModelEntityChecker.checkEntities(ModelEntityChecker.java:107)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.GenericDelegator.<init>(GenericDelegator.java:235)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.DelegatorFactoryImpl.getInstance(DelegatorFactoryImpl.java:33)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.DelegatorFactoryImpl.getInstance(DelegatorFactoryImpl.java:25)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilObject.getObjectFromFactory(UtilObject.java:202)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.DelegatorFactory.getDelegator(DelegatorFactory.java:51)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entityext.data.EntityDataLoadContainer.loadContainer(EntityDataLoadContainer.java:272)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entityext.data.EntityDataLoadContainer.start(EntityDataLoadContainer.java:236)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.container.ContainerLoader.start(ContainerLoader.java:230)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.startStartLoaders(Start.java:362)
[java] at org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.start(Start.java:337)
[java] at org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.main(Start.java:139)
[java] 2014-06-01 01:30:33,679 (Thread-0) [
ContainerLoader.java:246:INFO ] Shutting down containers
[java] Java Result: 99
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 31 seconds
I hope that these comments help.
I will try to see what I did to cause the null pointer since the person
writing the code did not think that any error was possible at that point!
Perhaps I commented out too many group-map entities.
I will take this up on the user forum until the wiki gets fixed.
Ron.
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