Data loading is one topic, location of custom components is another topic. In release 17 and later, there is no longer a hot-deploy, but only a plugins folder to place your custom work.
As for data loading, it does not matter where you place your component, the data will load anyway as long as you have the loading in proper order if you have any dependencies on other data. On Feb 1, 2018 1:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: Hi It was quite some time back (well, a year...that's like 7 dog years or 14 programmer years) it was announced that hot-deploy was being deprecated: https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/entry/apache-ofbiz-news-march-2017 The directory still exists in 16.11.04. Would it be correct to assume that even if this still works it would better to make any customization in plugins (mentioned in the above URL)? And would this be true of custom component loads of data when nothing else is being customized, or is data load customization a completely different topic for building custom gradlew load targets? Thanks!
