Good sleuthing Tony. I opened a ticket here for the localhost fix: https://tickets.openmrs.org/browse/TRUNK-2765
Can you add a link to the other thread you found about it? Ben On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Tony Dunbar <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Janet...Thanks Daniel! > > Wow...after about 2 full days I was finally able to get my build > environment setup and the OpenMRS application deployed and running. > > The two main problems I experienced were that I couldnt use the default > port 8080 as the port which jetty listens on. I could not initially find > the place to change it to an alternate port number. I finally found a > reference on the web to adding the following to the maven.jetty.plugin > configuration in the file webapp/pom.xml: > > <connectors> > <connector > implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector"> > <port>8083</port> > <maxIdleTime>60000</maxIdleTime> > </connector> > </connectors> > > Afterwards, I was able to launch the jetty server and install the app. > Then, the install was failing due to not being able to create the > openrms_user or set its permissions in the database. I discovered from past > issue threads that others had similar problems and a code change was made to > specify 'root'@'localhost' instead of 'root'@'%' in the database > installation script. This was a problem for me in that mysql is not > installed on the same machine as the web servers. In both my dev and > production environments this will always be a different server. Therefore, > I specfied during the install that I did not need a separate login to be > created and this step was skipped. Afterwards, the remainder of the install > went smoothly. Just to make sure I could repeat the install process, I > dropped everything and reinstalled from nothing two more times. Repeating > the process took less than an hour and was successful. > > Thanks for the links to the web service information. I will review and > consider it. I am still leaning toward using the API directly for > concurrency, speed and scalability but the info is useful. > > Thanks, > Tony > > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:44 AM, jriley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Tony- >> >> Great question. >> >> Here's a wiki page that addresses using the API: >> https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/How+To+Use+the+OpenMRS+API >> >> As Daniel mentioned, you can set up an OpenMRS server and call web >> services. >> The section called "In an External Application using web services" links >> to >> that documentation. >> >> If you prefer to use the libraries in your own app, look at the section >> "In >> an External Application using the API Jar" . >> >> You can jump-start your application in Eclipse with the Maven module >> archetype. This will make a mavenized skeleton for an OpenMRS module. It >> makes an Eclipse project with a Maven pom.xml for you, which will take >> care >> of downloading all the OpenMRS jars that you need. You can delete the >> "web" >> folder entirely, and rename the "api" folder to something more suited to >> your project. >> >> There are directions at: >> >> https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Step+by+Step+Installation+for+Developers >> >> The maven archetype directions are at: >> https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Using+the+Module+Maven+Archetype >> >> You can find API documentation at >> https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/archive/Developer+Resources . There's >> no >> separate documentation for 1.8.x, the current stable release. I believe >> all >> the differences between 1.7 and 1.8 were behind the scenes performance >> improvements, so download the 1.7 . Version 1.9 is in development now. >> You >> can see the documentation for it at http://resources.openmrs.org/doc . >> >> The API docs often have some helpful examples at the beginning of class >> descriptions. You might also take a look at >> org.openmrs.api.context.Context . Browse all the services called >> getXYZService() . These services have the "big picture" methods that show >> you what kinds of things you can save or search for. >> >> Finally, the unit tests are an excellent way to see how to call the API. >> The OpenMRS source code is at >> https://source.openmrs.org/changelog/~br=trunk/OpenMRS . >> >> For your own unit tests, if you need to test things with API calls or have >> a >> database populated with OpenMRS objects, make your JUnit classes extend >> the >> BaseContextSensitive class. Details at >> https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Unit+Tests . >> >> Cheers- >> Janet >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://openmrs-mailing-list-archives.1560443.n2.nabble.com/OpenMRS-Dev-Forum-tp6882651p6884428.html >> Sent from the Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _________________________________________ >> >> To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to >> [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body >> (not the subject) of your e-mail. >> >> [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l] >> > > ------------------------------ > Click here to > unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l>from > OpenMRS Developers' mailing list _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. 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