try running ant run or startofbiz.bat for windows or startofbiz.sh for linux
Ruth Hoffman sent the following on 6/11/2009 8:42 AM: > To Whomever May Be Minding the Store... > > Yesterday I downloaded the most recent version from the Apache site > (the big "DOWNLOAD OFBIZ" button) and followed the directions in the > README file exactly as stated: > > Welcome to Apache OFBiz! > > If you have a release build all you need to run OFBiz is a 1.5 series > JDK (not just the JRE, the full J2SDK). > > However if you have downloaded ofbiz from SVN then you should > load the demo data (strongly advised) with the following command > on the command line: > > ant run-install > > Once that is properly setup just run the executable jar file > that comes with OFBiz, which is ofbiz.jar. To do this on the > command line you would run: > > j_*ava -jar ofbiz.jar*_ > > There are also start scripts for Windows and Unix-based > operating systems, namely startofbiz.bat and startofbiz.sh. > > Once OFBiz starts, you can look at the demo storefront at: > http://localhost:8080/ecommerce/ > > That is, I opened a command line and typed in: java -jar ofbiz.jar > I pointed my browser to "http://localhost:8080/ecommerce"; with the > following result: > > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1770) > java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1735) > org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredAttrNSImpl.synchronizeData(Unknown Source) > org.apache.xerces.dom.AttrImpl.getSpecified(Unknown Source) > org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredElementNSImpl.synchronizeData(Unknown > Source) > org.apache.xerces.dom.ElementImpl.getNodeName(Unknown Source) > org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilXml.firstChildElement(UtilXml.java:655) > > org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilProperties.xmlToProperties(UtilProperties.java:779) > > org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilProperties$ExtendedProperties.<init>(UtilProperties.java:921) > > > org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilProperties.getProperties(UtilProperties.java:539) > > org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilProperties$UtilResourceBundle.getBundle(UtilProperties.java:850) > > > org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilProperties.getResourceBundle(UtilProperties.java:485) > > ... > > FYI - I just wanted to see how well the distribution/download works. > This is just to let you know that its not working so well. At least not > for this instance/version. > > Regards, > Ruth > > -- BJ Freeman http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation http://bjfreeman.elance.com http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro Systems Integrator.
