I have the system on a local desktop. I then zip up the files and upload
them to my server. I use webmin which then unzips the files on my server.
I do all my edits with tools available here.
but if you have vnc you can use gnome GUI and gedit.
I suggest you use ./ant create-component, using the clients name, then
you can put all your new files in that component.
I copy the demo data files into a hot-deploy component /data. I replace
demo with the clients name.
I then edit the ofbiz-component.xml in the new clients component that
that I copied the data files so that the new files are listed. for
safety sake I also comment out the demo data files in the original
components.
you have to search each component in application and framework /data
folder to find them.
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Your thinking of importing a data file. This method connects your old db
to ofbiz by creating a new datasource for it. as long as the Db is
accessible on your private network, including you VPN, and there is a
jbc driver for it, you can create the datasource.
you do this by copying the proper Datasource and renaming it then change
the datasorce so it can connect to your other systems db.
then you create new entities from the webtools
you can use the same hot-deploy component that you use for the new
client data.
then you create in the entityengine.xml a new delegator for that datasouce.
you then can use code (java, minilanq) to read, massage the data, and
store either way, in realtime.
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You have webtools for reading in new xml files.
and I don't suggest you use run-install on a production server.
I do this in few steps.
I copy the production system code and dB.
I then do a svn update on the copied system
and work through any gotchas.
if you use hot-deploy to over ride the applications and framework then
any updates you do will not effect your work.
after satisfying myself that everything is covered and only then do I
connect my production db to the new code.
I am a packrat so I archive the old code.
that is about as much as I can support on the mailing list.
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Matt Warnock sent the following on 6/1/2010 9:25 PM:
> Thanks BJ for some of the answers. But see further questions below.
