I am about to do my most aggressive install to date (that is, aggressive in terms of pushing my limits - I am a coder, not a sysadmin). Here is what I want to do.
I have two servers, one running Ubuntu 12.04, and the other running OpenSuse 13.1. The Ubuntu machine has Apache's web server running, and I expect I need to install mod_jk on that machine, and somehow have it send all requests for OFBiz to the OpenSuse 13.1 server. On the OpenSuse 13.1 server, I already have Tomcat 7 installed. What I want to do is install the latest stable release of OFBiz, configured for multitenant support, onto that instance of Tomcat. The version of OFBiz is now up to, what, 13.x, but the most recent documentation I have found to date for installing OFBiz into an application server (other than that provided with the distribution) refers only to versions 9 and 10, indicating the method didn't work for version 11. There are three things in this effort that are new to me. 1) the multi-tenant configuration, 2) deploying OFBiz to another application server, and 3) using mod_jk, so traffic comes in via my web server, and it just lets Tomcat (on a different server in the LAN) handle it. I will have the DB on yet a different machine, but doing that is pretty much a no-brainer. Can anyone either provide step-by-step guidance on these things that are new to me, or point me to the most recent documentation that talks about them (ideally referring to the latest stable release)? BTW: In terms of coding extensions for OFBiz, does anyone have any thoughts on using Spring and the toolset from that, or Eclipse, to do the coding and deploying of new capabilities And would there be any benefit from hibernate? While I have used core Java for a couple decades, I have not used either Spring or Hibernate, and my recent readings suggest these two as having significant benefits; but that begs the question of if/how they ought/can be used in a project like OFBiz. Thanks Ted -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D.
