Hi, Re: 2- How do ofbiz experts actually develop their applications and what am I doing wrong?
This is the approach I would advice: 1. Use your preferred download from http://ofbiz.apache.org or use a checkout from svn. 2. Get acquainted with building and loading demo data (with ./ant build and ./ant load-demo) and starting/stopping OFBiz with ./ant start and ./ant stop 3. If you feel confident about working with step 2, use ./ant create-component to create your bespoke development component. This component will be created in the hot-deploy folder of OFbiz and will have all the basics to create screens, forms, menus, your bespoke entitiy model and services. 4. rebuild ofbiz with ./ant build and ./ant load demo to ensure your component will be recognized and have your bespoke setup data loaded when running OFBiz. 5. Get acquainted with the files in your bespoke component. 6. Create your screens, forms, menus, .ftl and .groovy files in the correct sub folders. Don't worry about restarting ofbiz while doing your stuff in your component. You can modify and test drive the changes in your screen, form, and controller files and in your .ftl and .groovy files without having to go back to step 4 described above. Only when you add external jars, create and modify services, scripts and java files you will need to execute step 4. Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com
