I've had the chance to spend some time with OFBiz lately. My first goal was to try to make some sense of the massive set of machinery that is OFBiz. It's vast and powerful and a lot to consume.
I built a proof-of-concept mini-pac at http://acq.open-ils.org:8080/bibsearch/. I created it as a new application, much like the "accounting", "ecommerce", etc. applications. The idea was to create the most basic top-to-bottom application for learning and experimentation purposes. It's built with Freemarker templates, Beanshell scripts, and the opensrf/openils Java libs. For those of you who have shell access to the acq.open-ils.org machine, all of the bits and pieces are in [1]. The only top-level change is the addition of [2] to [3]. If you try to use it, about the only searches that have results are "harry potter" and "water" -- those are items I manually added via Z3950. It's very basic and brittle. The next step is to add authentication and permssions control to the pac so I can wrap my brain around that. More to come... -bill ps. Art, et al., I'm developing on my own ofbiz/opentaps instance, changes to Art's install won't affect me any. [1] /home/artunit/src/ofbiz/opentaps-1.0.0/applications/bibsearch/* [2] <load-component component-location="${ofbiz.home }/applications/bibsearch"/> [3] /home/artunit/src/ofbiz/opentaps-1.0.0/applications/component-load.xml -- Bill Erickson Equinox Software, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://esilibrary.com/
