Hi Mike, Thank you for your feedback and raising your concerns. Perhaps the word "useless" might not have been the best choice in the commit log. I would maybe use the word redundant instead.
I would suggest that perhaps it is a rather minor thing to realize that everything is the same but under /plugins instead of /hot-deploy. So maybe this is not a big change that would take anyone hours or days to figure out :) It's just a different directory name for consistency's sake. Regarding discussions, I would like to highlight that this topic came about multiple times in multiple threads and there was consensus to proceed in order to unify how OFBiz is extended in addition to other benefits. Just search JIRAs and the ML for discussions on plugins and hot-deploy to get an idea. And by the way, this stuff is not left undocumented. Take a look at README.md and it will explain to you how to create and manage plugins in a good amount of detail. With respect to existing documentation, may I suggest that it is simply outdated and requires update? Books, wikis, blogs and even code gets outdated eventually and hence everything should be revised and updated. If you stop changing code just because there is material out there then you cannot improve anything! I would suggest that this is a good opportunity for book authors to update their material and publish new books. Finally, there were massive changes in OFBiz over the past year or two far beyond just hot-deploy. Examples? Gradle, Unit-Tests, Plugin Manager, Remote Libraries, Deprecated Components, Deprecated Minilang, rename domain to org.apache.ofbiz, and many more! All of this material needs to go into new books and publications. Cheers, Taher Alkhateeb On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Just saw this: "Removes the now useless hot-deploy directory" > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9268 > > Useless? All the previous books, emails, articles, wikis, and blogs that > guided folks on how to deploy a new app, or modify one has been completely > wiped out by 2-3 folks on a short email discussion? > > Sorry, baffled. > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Wai <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've added a new thread in the dev list for more discussion > > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/discussion-With-plugins- > > is-hot-deploy-necessary-td4702976.html > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble. > > com/plugin-and-hotdeploy-tp4702922p4702977.html > > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >
