Re: Adding components to an instance of OFBiz

[Ruth Hoffman]

Hi Jacques:
Thanks for the update. This is what I was wondering - if anyone was 
working on this.
Ruth
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
At this stage 2 points :
1) In OFBiz, there is already a basic ant task to create a component 
structure
   * ant -help and    * ant -projecthelp are your friends
   * ant create-component is the task
2) Currently the Neogia team is buildind a concept of add-ons for OFBiz
   * It's not yet finished
   * But promising, see (mostly in French but there is an option to 
translate in English using when only in French)
       ** http://www.neogia.org/Add-on_Manager_Design
       ** http://www.neogia.org/OFBiz_add-on/fr#Qu.27est_ce_qu.27un_Addon
       ** http://www.neogia.org/Add-on_Manager

Beware I don't think it's operational yet, but the documents above can 
give you an idea of the concept

HTH

Jacques

From: "aswath narayana" <aswath.satras...@gmail.com>
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)
<dong...@wizitsoft.com>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.

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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Ruth Hoffman <rhoff...@aesolves.com>
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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>