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Jacques Le Roux closed OFBIZ-12588.
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Resolution: Information Provided
> Drop Derby and support Docker instead (Yes, that's not a mistake)
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> Key: OFBIZ-12588
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-12588
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: ddev
> Priority: Major
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> Derby is unique in the list of supported databases in that it lacks many
> features that normal databases support, leading to Jira issues like:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6138 . If you need specific
> examples just ask.
> Derby is already not recommended for production systems (which is good).
> I'm going to speculate that the reason derby is supported is to have a easy
> way for people to download ofbiz and "just run it" to get the demo running.
> Unfortunately this is not the case now as java is often not installed
> anymore, and when it is installed, it's often the wrong version of java for
> ofbiz.
> I propose that we drop support for Derby and instead allow people to get the
> demo easily running by making a official docker demo of the current stable
> version that just comes with postgres in the docker image. (docker image is
> being worked on here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10407 ).
> Instead of requiring java to be installed, it would require docker to be
> installed, but I believe the odds of success for a user are higher with
> docker then dealing with the java version incompatibilities.
> (Note: is the "ofbiz/trunk" image on dockerhub a official version?)
> There is a patch related to the issue mentioned previously to add a docker
> build file at:
> https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework/pull/43/files/95a1230f2a80c822ca0d08e5825be44856821459
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> If you would like me to submit a patch to that patch to add postgres support
> and to make it load the demo data let me know and I will gladly write it.
>
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