The new standalone "java -jar mifos.war" end-user server (see MIFOSX-1552 parent task and blog past linked from it) greatly simplify the first time set-up experience for non-technical Mifos users, as it completely removes the need to do ANY mysql and Tomcat etc. etc. set-up.
While https://github.com/openMF/mifosx/wiki/Eclipse & https://github.com/openMF/mifosx/wiki/IntelliJ-IDEA-Setup now mention the ServerWithMariaDB4jApplication launcher which is very useful for developers, our main end-user Mifos X server installation document, at https://github.com/openMF/mifosx/blob/develop/INSTALL.md, does not yet mention this new much simpler end-user standalone server set-up end-user experience.
The goal of this task is to update INSTALL.md with clear end-user doc. Note that the new approach is an alternative to, not a replacement for, the classic WAR deployment as its currently described.
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