Part of my changes has been reverted by Hans in rev. 1304679 and 1304687 (we 
are discussing this in another thread) but I would really appreciate if in the 
meantime you all could help to test my changes (before the revert).

Thanks,

Jacopo

On Mar 23, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> Jose, Price,
> 
> thank you for your feedback, it really helps.
> Jose, I have modified the script according to your suggestions, thank you.
> I am going to commit the changes shortly.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jacopo
> 
> 
> On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Prince Sewani wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jacopo,
>> 
>> Although I'm not a windows user but yes it works fine from the tools folder 
>> on windows. 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> Prince
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Jacopo Cappellato <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected] 
>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 3:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: "bin" folder for executable files/scripts
>> 
>> Actually, the /d shouldn't be required:
>> 
>> ===========================================
>> echo off
>> set OFBIZ_HOME=%0\..\..\
>> echo on
>> cd %OFBIZ_HOME%
>> "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -jar ofbiz.jar
>> echo off
>> ===========================================
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jacopo
>> 
>> On Mar 23, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>> 
>>> I did progress on this: I was able to move all the scripts to the "tools" 
>>> folder; I didn't add the "bin" subfolder to it because the existing files 
>>> in the "tools" folder are not used and can be removed: in this way we will 
>>> have a "tools" folder containing all the platform dependent scripts.
>>> But now I need some help from Windows users:
>>> 
>>> could you please try to create a "startofbiz.bat" file in the "tools" 
>>> folder with the following content:
>>> ===========================================
>>> echo off
>>> set OFBIZ_HOME=%0\..\..\
>>> echo on
>>> cd /d %OFBIZ_HOME%
>>> "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -jar ofbiz.jar
>>> echo off
>>> ===========================================
>>> 
>>> Then you should try to run it from the home folder:
>>> 
>>> tools\startorfbiz.bat
>>> 
>>> and from the tools folder:
>>> 
>>> cd tools
>>> startorfbiz.bat
>>> 
>>> Both should work fine: I already did this work for the sh files but I 
>>> couldn't test the above mechanism for Windows.
>>> 
>>> I would really appreciate your feedback.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Jacopo
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Prince Sewani wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Well the 'bin' clashing with eclipse default is really a concern
>>>> to being with, the learning curve is yet steep, and with to dos of IDE's 
>>>> as of now,
>>>> everyone is pretty much acquainted. Also in-case we change it to 'bin' in 
>>>> the main folder,
>>>> then there'll be an additional set of documentation required for that to 
>>>> help users on different Operating systems.
>>>> 
>>>> Unless we go like opentaps (felt that on a few things) and then one is not 
>>>> really able to use it (Just a comment No offense).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "tools/bin" sounds great, unless that also doesn't call of any other clash 
>>>> or so.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> Prince
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: Mansour Al Akeel <[email protected]>
>>>> To: [email protected] 
>>>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 4:13 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: "bin" folder for executable files/scripts
>>>> 
>>>> bin is good enough.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Jacques Le Roux
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Jacopo,
>>>>> 
>>>>> tools/bin  sounds good to me
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jacques
>>>>> 
>>>>> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[email protected]>
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks everyone for the valuable comments!
>>>>>> I am trying to finalize this thread: there seems to be consensus to move
>>>>>> all the executable scripts into a folder to keep things organized.
>>>>>> For the name of the folder:
>>>>>> * some of you think that the "bin" (as I originally suggested) should be
>>>>>> used because it is often used for this purpose
>>>>>> * some of you are worried that this could interfere with some commonly
>>>>>> used IDEs (e.g. Eclipse) that use the bin folder for output and need to 
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> configured to use a different standard name
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> After reviewing what we have now in OFBiz I am wondering if we could use
>>>>>> the already existing "tools" folder; its current layout is:
>>>>>> tools/api-java16
>>>>>> tools/src
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> option a: add all the executables to tools/ folder directly
>>>>>> option b: create a subfolder tools/bin and add all the executables there
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jacopo
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Feb 29, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Then we could recommend to name .bin for instance
>>>>>>> But I wonder if this will not be a source of problem for newbies...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And also for Windows users, bin is not a standard name at all
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jacques
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> From: "Adrian Crum" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> That's fine with me. We just need to update the Eclipse configuration
>>>>>>>> files.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -Adrian
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 2/29/2012 3:20 PM, J. Eckard wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I think that eclipse / eclipse users should have to accommodate the
>>>>>>>>> directory structure of OFBiz, not the other way around.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Feb 29, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for the feedback! Any suggestion for the name of the folder? I
>>>>>>>>>> was hoping to use a "standard" name, that is why I initially 
>>>>>>>>>> proposed the
>>>>>>>>>> "bin" folder... but since that is not an option we will have to 
>>>>>>>>>> think to
>>>>>>>>>> something else (unless we use the existing "tools" folder but I am 
>>>>>>>>>> not sure
>>>>>>>>>> about the intended usage of that).
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Jacopo
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Feb 27, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> +1
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Jacques
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> From: "Adrian Crum"<[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Sounds great, but don't use "bin" - that folder is created by
>>>>>>>>>>>> Eclipse and it is in the SVN ignore list.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> -Adrian
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/27/2012 7:10 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The number of executable files (*.sh and *bat) in the OFBiz home
>>>>>>>>>>>>> folder is rather big: what if we create a "bin" folder and we 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> move all of
>>>>>>>>>>>>> them there? In this way users will have a place where they will 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> find all the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> executable files only and the main folder will be cleaner.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jacopo
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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