Hi Gautam,

This quick answer is only my opinion and may not reflect the community. 

OFBiz is a real community driven open source project. There are no teams 
intended to support users. This project is moving forward. If you want to be 
sure not to find yourself in troubles such as those you described you should 
stick to a revision number or even better to a release. The advantage with a 
release is that bug fixes will be applied on it by the community; you don't 
have to care by yourself on the contrary of a revision number. If you want to 
follow progress then you will have to find your own way I guess...

HTH

Jacques
  ----- Message d'origine ----- 
  De : Gautam Deb 
  À : dev@ofbiz.apache.org 
  Envoyé : lundi 30 avril 2007 15:35
  Objet : Re: Updating entities after OFBiz update


  To give some context to what exactly I mean to say -

  1. I am aware of the fact the any addition made to the entities is 
automatically taken care by OFBiz. What I referred was any alteration to the 
entities like change in the size of the column, change in the data type of a 
column, change in the primary key of an entity or change in a relationship 
between entities etc.

  2. Also what to do in scenarios when some entity field is deprecated and we 
are still using it. For example, some time back, the 'federalTaxId' field part 
of PartyGroup entity. We were using that entity and our business logic was 
dependent on that. In a later release this field was deprecated and moved to 
some other entity. What to do in such scenarios?

  Thanks & Regards,
  Gautam Deb 


  G.Venkata Phanindra wrote: 
    Hi Gautam Deb, 
    Once we Update the OFBiz n start it, automatically new entities are added 
and from my last two years of experience i never saw the changes in the 
existing entities relations that will effect the previous revision. hopefully 
new ones are added and i see enough care is taken by the community so as not to 
disturb the existing relations. 
    Hopefully i answered your point as i understood your question.
    Regards
    Phani


    On 4/30/07, Gautam Deb < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
      What is the best way to update the entities after an OFBiz update?

      CURRENT SCENARIO - We are using OFBiz as the framework for our 
application. We mainly use the the OFBiz apps Order Manager and Party Manager. 
Apart from this we have some custom applications which basically uses the 
Entity and Service engine. The OFBiz update process for us is not so frequent. 
We update the OFBiz every 4 - 6 months. The problem is that the OFBiz changes a 
lot in this duration. For the changes in entities (to be precise any alteration 
in the entity) we write manual SQLs and shoot them against the database.


Thanks & Regards, 
Gautam Deb





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