I think it will be a good idea to do administration of components in OFBiz. OFBiz might get bloated with infrastructure and maintainance, when we start doing component development within OFBiz itself.
An alternate would be to have a plugin in Eclipse that will help in building of OFBiz components (A wizard interface to build a directory structure and ability to create database and view entities visually). -Aswath On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Michael Xu (xudong) <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > >
