hi Ruth, I really like your idea, which is very similar with JIRA and Confluence's plugin model. If users can use such a wizard to install/uninstall new component on the fly (without restart), that would be more helpful to promote ofbiz to next level in SaaS wise.
-- Regards, Michael Xu (xudong) www.wizitsoft.com | Office: (8610) 6267 0615 ext 806 | Mobile: (86) 135 0135 9807 | Fax: (8610) 62670096 On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Ruth Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David: > Thanks for the quick reply. Given your response - I'm wondering if a useful > addition to OFBiz would be a feature in webtools to manage OFBiz components. > I can envision a wizard driven interface that builds the basic directory > structure and config file(s) such as the ofbiz-component.xml file necessary > to get a new component operational? This could be extended to allow for the > (sort-of) dynamic removal of components. What do you think? > > Ruth > > David E Jones wrote: > >> >> The best way to do this is just put it in the "hot-deploy" directory. When >> OFBiz starts up it will look in that directory for sub-directories that have >> a "ofbiz-component.xml" file which it will read to load resources for that >> component. >> >> -David >> >> P.S. It's good to see you around again Ruth! >> >> >> On Apr 19, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Ruth Hoffman wrote: >> >> Hello All: >>> I'm a big fan of OFBiz - nice job on the Apache site, BTW. >>> Congratulations - it is World class! >>> >>> I've been using OFBiz off and on for a few years now for a number of >>> different projects. Recently, I had a requirement to add a custom component >>> to the application section of the framework. After a brief search of the >>> mailing lists (I have been away from the OFBiz collaborative tools for >>> sometime) and documentation I have the following question: >>> >>> Is there an automatic way to add a component to the framework - or is >>> this still a manual process? I don't see any obvious webtool or other >>> mechanism for doing this through OFBiz. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ruth Hoffman >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
