Steve created OFBIZ-13207:
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Summary: Installation documentation (Windows 11 frustrated
installation)
Key: OFBIZ-13207
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13207
Project: OFBiz
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: ALL COMPONENTS
Affects Versions: 18.12.17
Environment: Windows 11.
Reporter: Steve
Background 45 years using computers, 20 years as a business owner.
Trying Ofbiz as a replacement for legacy invoicing software and ecommerce site.
Install says: install JDK.
Current JDK version is 23.
Gradle Wrapper inOfbiz pulls in gradle 5.0-rc-5 (not even a release version).
Consequently the build fails with piles of deprecation errors.
>From the gradle compatibility table, gradle 5 works with jdk 11, so I used
>that.
This allowed the build to complete, but still with a pile of deprecation
notices.
The last couple of sentences do not reflect the frustration and time wasted in
reading about unfamiliar concepts and understanding the problems….something NO
BUSINESS USER would ordinarily be able to do, nor would have the time. So Ofbiz
goes in the bin at this point/goodbye potential user.
As I’m a fighter I tried to use the current gradle 18.1.12 with the current JDK
23.
This requires replacing various obsolete method names in the files build.gradle
and solr\build.gradle
before I was eventually beaten by aspectjweaver-1.8.9.jar; Invalid CEN header
which I could not overcome despite repeated downloads and using -U in gradlew.
All the above is unthinkable for a potential user.
None of the above can be attribute to Windows, as far as I can tell…so no-one
has come across these problems in the last X years? No-one has installed it?
Added to the very low commit rate in Github, it seems to be evident that Ofbiz
is staggering along a purely maintenance path. Unless there is some evidence to
the contrary somewhere.
Shame, it could be a world beater. I wanted it to be the solution.
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