Le 04/06/2014 17:05, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
I do get worked up over documentation!
It is a bit like living in a house where everyone wants to cook but no one will
wash the pots and pans!
The food is great for a while but eventually no one trusts the food after they
see the kitchen.
Good analogy :D
Trying to get people to clean up the docs while they write the code is a
challenge but it is part of the project management process.
Asking people to write docs in their second or third language is hard but
perhaps might be easier if they knew that an editor would fix the English.
I can help smooth out phrasing, clean up grammar, etc. but if the software
developers don't provide the facts, I can not make them up.
For example, the person who changed the Ant build has to fix the docs, no one
else knows what changed.
Yes, as often, it's a matter of human resources
Does the project have a group in charge of documentation?
No, it's all benevolent work and it's hard to organise things because we have to earn a living outside and the situation is continuously changing
(most of active volunters are independent or working for companies who did a great effort at some point but, I guess, have also to fight everyday to
keep on their paths
Does this group have the same control over releases as the coders?
This is hard to do in an open source project but if the basic documentation being wrong or incomplete is not a blocker on the release it will never
get fixed.
That's quite an idea, I'd love to see it applied. But it might be only a dream too few people among committers and even PMC feel concerned nowadays.
And this same PMC is reluctant to invite new people, afraid of the quality their help could offer (there are already some experience about that)
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Apache+OFBiz+PMC+%28Project+Management+Committee%29+Members+and+Committers
OfBiz looks like a 0.6 release level from the outside.
Hold on, it looks at least like a 0.9 to me from this perspective :p
Once you get into it, it is clearly a highly functional project but the
apparent quality is low.
I am not sure what impact that this has on adoption but I suspect that it is a
big deterrent.
I so much agree
For some people, this is probably just more ranting but the state of the docs
is important and needs to be a bigger concern for all of the developers.
Could developers listen to you...
Jacques
Ron
On 04/06/2014 4:29 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
You are welcome to help... Rants never do...
Jacques
Le 04/06/2014 07:01, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
The screenshots would make a nice addition to the instructions that Adrian
supplied.
They worked very well and I am now trying to get my head around the actual
functionality.
It appears that everyone likes writing new documentation rather than fixing the
"official" docs.
Ron
On 03/06/2014 6:52 PM, Sergio G Barreros wrote:
This is what I always use and it's very easy to follow.
http://lj4newbies.blogspot.com/2008/06/setup-mysql-with-ofbiz.html
Regards,
Sergio
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Ron Wheeler <rwhee...@artifact-software.com
<mailto:rwhee...@artifact-software.com>> wrote:
There is a description about how to add the database connector but
it is different and more complicated.
If necessary, put the correct JDBC driver in:
${ofbiz install dir}/framework/entity/lib/jdbc
replacing the old or incorrect version of the driver there (ie
copy in with same name to avoid problems with update restoring the
old driver later)
On 03/06/2014 12:31 AM, Deepak Dixit wrote:
One more step:
Don't forgot to put the mySql drive.
Use "./ant download-mySQL-JDBC" to download the mysql driver.
Thanks & Regards
---
Deepak Dixit
On Jun 3, 2014, at 3:10 AM, Adrian Crum
<adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com
<mailto:adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com>> wrote:
Here is what I recommend:
1. Restore the original file.
2. Modify the "localmysql" datasource element to connect
to your database.
3. Modify the "default" delegator element:
Change
<group-map group-name="org.ofbiz"
datasource-name="localderby"/>
to
<group-map group-name="org.ofbiz"
datasource-name="localmysql"/>
The OLAP and Tenant data sources will still use Derby. If
you want to change those to use MySQL also, then:
1. Modify the "localmysqlolap" datasource element to
connect to your OLAP database.
2. Modify the "localmysqltenant" datasource element to
connect to your Tenant database.
3. Modify the "default" delegator element:
Change
<group-map group-name="org.ofbiz.olap"
datasource-name="localderbyolap"/>
to
<group-map group-name="org.ofbiz.olap"
datasource-name="localmysqlolap"/>
Change
<group-map group-name="org.ofbiz.tenant"
datasource-name="localderbytenant"/>
to
<group-map group-name="org.ofbiz.tenant"
datasource-name="localmysqltenant"/>
Finally, run:
ant load-demo
Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com <http://www.sandglass-software.com>
On 6/2/2014 2:26 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
In entityengine.xml, I removed the databases that I
am not using just
to make it clearer.
As OfBiz is distributed there seems to be several
group-map entries that
are active and some commented out.
There seemed to be several different group-names in use.
Did I understand the instructions incorrectly or have
I screwed up
somewhere else?
The ofbiz database exists and the ofbiz user has all
privs on it.
A null pointer usually means that I promised to
provide an object and I
didn't rather than a database security error.
I have not touched any other configuration files.
<delegator name="default" entity-model-reader="main"
entity-group-reader="main"
entity-eca-reader="main"
distributed-cache-clear-enabled="false">
<group-map group-name="org.ofbiz"
datasource-name="localmysql"/>
</delegator>
.
.
.
<datasource name="localmysql"
helper-class="org.ofbiz.entity.datasource.GenericHelperDAO"
field-type-name="mysql"
check-on-start="true"
add-missing-on-start="true"
check-pks-on-start="false"
use-foreign-keys="true"
join-style="ansi-no-parenthesis"
alias-view-columns="false"
drop-fk-use-foreign-key-keyword="true"
table-type="InnoDB"
character-set="latin1"
collate="latin1_general_cs">
<read-data reader-name="tenant"/>
<read-data reader-name="seed"/>
<read-data reader-name="seed-initial"/>
<read-data reader-name="demo"/>
<read-data reader-name="ext"/>
<inline-jdbc
jdbc-driver="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
jdbc-uri="jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/ofbiz?autoReconnect=true
<http://127.0.0.1/ofbiz?autoReconnect=true>"
jdbc-username="ofbiz"
jdbc-password="mylittlesecret"
isolation-level="ReadCommitted"
pool-minsize="2"
pool-maxsize="250"
time-between-eviction-runs-millis="600000"/>
</datasource>
Gives me:
[java] 2014-06-02 17:14:05,843 (main) [
ModelViewEntity.java:551:WARN ] [ExampleStatusDetail]:
Conversion for
complex-alias needs to be implemented for cache and
in-memory eval stuff
to work correctly, will not work for alias: statusDelay
[java] 2014-06-02 17:14:06,202 (main) [
ModelReader.java:436:INFO
] FINISHED LOADING ENTITIES - ALL FILES; #Entities=863
#ViewEntities=300
#Fields=9049 #Relationships=2961 #AutoRelationships=2186
[java] 2014-06-02 17:14:06,297 (main) [
GenericDelegator.java:234:INFO ] Doing entity
definition check...
[java] 2014-06-02 17:14:06,317 (main) [
ModelEntityChecker.java:508:INFO ] [initReservedWords]
array length=1023
[java] java.lang.NullPointerException
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.GenericDelegator.getEntityFieldType(GenericDelegator.java:541)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.model.ModelEntityChecker.checkEntities(ModelEntityChecker.java:107)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.GenericDelegator.<init>(GenericDelegator.java:235)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.DelegatorFactoryImpl.getInstance(DelegatorFactoryImpl.java:33)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.DelegatorFactoryImpl.getInstance(DelegatorFactoryImpl.java:25)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilObject.getObjectFromFactory(UtilObject.java:202)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entity.DelegatorFactory.getDelegator(DelegatorFactory.java:51)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entityext.data.EntityDataLoadContainer.loadContainer(EntityDataLoadContainer.java:272)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.entityext.data.EntityDataLoadContainer.start(EntityDataLoadContainer.java:236)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.container.ContainerLoader.start(ContainerLoader.java:230)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.startStartLoaders(Start.java:362)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.start(Start.java:337)
[java] at
org.ofbiz.base.start.Start.main(Start.java:139)
[java] 2014-06-02 17:14:07,337 (Thread-0) [
ContainerLoader.java:246:INFO ] Shutting down containers
[java] Java Result: 99
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 31 seconds
On 02/06/2014 4:26 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
The correct steps are there:
Modify an existing datasource (near the bottom of
the file) or create
a new one by copying one of the sample datasources
already there and
giving it a new unique name
If using the default OFBiz transaction manager
and connection
pool, update the data URI, username and password
in the inline-jdbc tag
If you want your OFBiz tables in a special
schema first create
that schema in your database, then set the
schema-name attribute on
the datasource tag
Find the "default" delegator near the top of
the file and change
the datasource-name attribute value in the
group-map tag under it to
the name of the data source you modified or created.
Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com
<http://www.sandglass-software.com>
On 6/2/2014 1:01 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
It appears that there is a missing step in the
description about how to
run OfBiz with a database other than Derby.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide
talks about changing the "default" delegator
but it does not mention
anywhere that I can find, how you tell OfBiz
that you want to use the
delegator associated with My SQL.
I am getting a null pointer which I think is
caused by OfBiz still
trying to use Derby which no longer has a
delegator sice it is commented
out and the MySQL one is uncommented.
What is the secret step tat I need to to to
make the instructions work?
Ron
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