I personally feel a binary only distribution will be very helpful which does not need any of the build time tool chain such a Ant, Maven or SVN to pull the sources. It should be like any other standard distribution of Tomcat, Geronimo or any other application.

Extending the existing ant scripts or using Maven can help us create a binary release. It should be one click process to install (using installer) for Windows and single command line like "tar -xvzf apache-ofbiz-x.xx.tar.gz.

Thanks,

Raj

Christopher Snow wrote:
From the work I have done on creating an Eclipse application, I quite like the OSGi plugin concept. OSGi may help ofbiz in areas like dependency management and hot upgrades. Maven 2 would be suitable as the build tool.

There is a lot to learn about OSGi first though...

Please  feel free to put a design or prototype together :o)
Though discussing it before avoids disillusions... So what is your idea, Maven 2 ?

Jacques




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