Hi Taher, I am trying to develop an OFBiz plugin that consists of a) Camunda workflow engine (published as a WAR); and b) OFBiz web app that make use of the workflow engine.
Allowing OFBiz to load standard web applications will allow me to achieve the above setup using only 1 plugin, making things easy for end-users. They only need to download that plugin, and not worry about deploying the Camunda workflow engine (published as a WAR) on his/her own, as the WAR file can be downloaded automatically via gradle script during OFBiz starting up. Regards, James Yong On 2017-05-05 18:07 (+0800), Taher Alkhateeb <[email protected]> wrote: > This topic is very much linked to the previous thread that you started > earleri "Tomcat SSO" so they might as well be one topic. I think I answered > most stuff in that thread. > > However, I would add that in my opinion, maybe it would be simpler if we > avoid implementing it in this fashion (ofbiz webapp + standard webapp) but > instead treat all of OFBiz as a single webapp by refactoring the catalina > container. Having two ways of doing the same thing is perhaps an added > complexity and more cognitive load on people for no added value that I can > think of. Unifying, on the other hand, would be a huge added value IMO. > > My 2 cents .. and thank you for bringing up this discussion > > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 11:35 AM, James Yong <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking into allowing OFBiz to load standard web application where > > there is no controller.xml and the jar files residing in web-inf/lib folder. > > > > Proposing to add an attribute named 'type' to the 'webapp' tag at > > ofbiz-component.xml, i.e. > > > > <webapp name="myapp" > > type="standard" <--------------- new proposed attribute > > title="Myapp" > > server="myapp-server" > > location="webapp/myapp" > > mount-point="/myapp"/> > > > > This new attribute will help to differentiate standard web applications > > from those in OFBiz, and allows Catalina Container to load them accordingly. > > When type="standard", will load as standard web application. > > When type is empty, load according to OFBiz way. > > > > Any feedback is welcome. > > > > Regards, > > James Yong > > > > >
