I am writing documentation for ofbiz and i am confused as to actually how the demo data and seed data is broken up. This is a snippet from the productions setup guide.
Expert Recommendation: For smaller installations we recommend loading the demo data and modifying it rather than creating all of the data from scratch. For larger installations we recommend creating seed data files with your own settings, copied from the demo seed data, or simply creating all data from scratch. These can be added to the "ext" set of install data files, which is done by referencing those files in an ofbiz-component.xml file entity-resource tag with the attribute reader-name="ext". To load the "seed" and "ext" groups run something like: "java -jar ofbiz.jar -install -readers=seed,ext" to me this is clear. either modify the exisiting demo and seed data for your purposes or be brave and create new based on the exisiting files. my question is why out of the box is some data seed data and some data demo data. What determines if it should have a reader of demo or seed out of the box? What would make sense to me is that everything out of the box is demo and stuff you add should be seed. Please help me understand this. -- Eric Schwartz Web Developer/IT Staff Steele Rubber Products 6180 E NC 150 HWY Denver, NC 28037 704-483-9343 ext 273 Fax: 704-483-6650
