Thanks for the description. If I were to develop a custom application based on ofbiz for a customer, what would be the criteria to decide on placing it into the 'special purpose' subdir or the 'hot deploy' subdir. Thanks
jacques.le.roux wrote: > >> Does this imply that the code in the ofb 'application' subdir is part of >> the >> framework > > Not exactly, framework and applications are different things. > Framework is the core system of the framework. It can be seen as the > technical part > Applications are the basic applications to demonstratre framework power > and to implement a basic > ERP/CRM/E-Business/E-Commerce/SCM/MRP/CMMS/EAM/etc. They can be seen as > the core business part. They are used by customers > applications. > Specialpurpose are not fundamental applications which are using basic > applications. For instance the POS use order, accounting, > parties, etc. > Hot-deploy is a mean to plug new applications by reusing existing ones and > preventing to duplicate code. You can put there any code > which will replace same existing code or/and you can add you own code (not > only java). > >>and the 'hot-deploy' subdir is for custom user applications that >> use ofb as a framework? > > Not only you can use specialpurpose too. Hot-deploy applications are > loaded last (after specialpurpose) so they override all > existing same code. Specialpurpose and hot-deploy have different goals. > > HTH > > Jacques > >> Thanks >> >> >> Tim Ruppert wrote: >>> >>> There's no reason to ever move anything from hot-deploy to >>> applications unless it's to become part of the framework application >>> suite. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Tim >>> -- >>> Tim Ruppert >>> HotWax Media >>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com >>> >>> o:801.649.6594 >>> f:801.649.6595 >>> >>> >>> On Feb 12, 2008, at 3:04 PM, ryan wrote: >>> >>>> Is there a checklist of what to look out for when moving an app from >>>> dev mode in hot-deploy to ${ofbiz}/applications/ ? >>>> >>>> regards, >>>> -Ryan >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/hot-deploy-vs-applications-tp15444336p15723421.html >> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/hot-deploy-vs-applications-tp15444336p15745634.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
