On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 13:19 +0000, Nagesh Pulluru wrote: > Just to inform you that I am currently working on the Mifos Installer > using the IzPack tool.
Awesome! IzPack looks cool. Can we integrate this with the Ant build? > In the first case we are planning to copy the "mifos.war" file into > CATALINA_HOME/webapps directory by checking the environment variables > on the target machine, if the environment variable for CATALINA_HOMEis > not yet set then the installer will suggest to set the environment > variable and copy the war file. Might be enough to simply prompt for and utilize: * location to install WAR file * location to install files like applicationConfiguration.custom.properties and chartOfAccounts.xml (this will be on the application server's classpath) I think it would be ideal if this step was not dependent on a particular application server. I wouldn't worry about setting CATALINA_HOME. > The next is to execute the SQL scripts. Before we execute latest-data.sql and latest-schema.sql we have to either * instruct the user to install/create a MySQL database (don't forget to recommend lowercase) * connect to MySQL and create the database Other things we may want to do: * guide user in creating applicationConfiguration.custom.properties * guide user in creating chartOfAccounts.xml These last two are just ideas, not requirements by any means. -- Adam Monsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/
