Taher Alkhateeb created OFBIZ-7972:
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Summary: Create a (PoC) plugin system for OFBiz based on Gradle
Key: OFBIZ-7972
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7972
Project: OFBiz
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: Upcoming Branch
Reporter: Taher Alkhateeb
Assignee: Taher Alkhateeb
This JIRA houses the attempt to create a plugin system for OFBiz based on
gradle. The plugin system should have the following features:
- It is independent of the version control system, file system, operating
system and any other environment tools surrounding OFBiz. Instead, it should be
fully integrated with OFBiz.
- It should unify the way OFBiz is extended, both for official supported
plugins and for third party plugins
- The plugin system takes advantage of the concept of a "component" in OFBiz
and utilize it as the building block for plugins
- The plugin system supports the concepts of "Repository" and "Dependency
Management". If possible, the plugin system will utilize these concepts
directly from Gradle instead of writing them from scratch.
The initial API for the plugin system will be small and expands as needed. The
API should include the following gradle tasks:
- createPlugin: creates a new plugin based on templates and place it in the
plugins directory
- activatePlugin: Make an inactive plugin active (compile and start with the
system).
- deactivatePlugin: Make an active plugin inactive (does not compile nor start
with the system)
- installPlugin: either install an existing plugin in the filesystem, or
download and install the plugin from a remote repository. Installation happens
by running the install script which is designed by the plugin author. By
default installPlugin also activates the plugin.
- uninstallPlugin: Uninstall an already installed plugin by running its
uninstall script. By default uninstallPlugin also deactivates the plugin, but
does not delete it.
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