a lot of links have been given in the mailing list to very good documentation. both from an end user and development perspective.
here is one point you may have missed since it rather obscure. ofbiz is the Framework folder. Applications have been added using the datamodel books as a guide. There are other Application those books that have not be implemented yet. However you can take the Framework and build your own applications, and not use the current applications. using the hot-deploy is one way to add to ofbiz. using a folder is another. If you do use the applications in ofbiz you can enter the security info thru the webtools, similar to the seed and demo data that gets loaded with ant run-install I suggest you go here and see if you missed any information. http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Documentation+Index Note: CMS is going through a re-work. madppiper sent the following on 8/28/2008 5:42 AM: > A warm and greatfully overdue "Aloha" @all fellow-developers ;) > > I've been scrwaling these forums for weeks and been reading up on OFBiz so > that I'm finally feeling well-prepared for a first hello. I myself am a > developer from Germany who has been working various on eCommerce platforms > for quite some time now. (I actually developed a slick new one from scratch > myself: www.bazaaria.com - but that's a different story). I am currently in > the midst of developing an online-commerce platform for a company and while > reading up on all the ones available, fell in love with OFBiz. So I pushed > the idea of builing it all around this neat package and got everybody > onboard. > > The only downside so far is that I am having a hard time reading up on the > details. I know that there are some well-written tutorials, but those are > scattered around the web, so I can't really find the right place to start. I > already got everything setup and am now trying to get a hang out of the > actual system. To be honest, I am still having dificulties getting > everything together, so perhaps there is somebody out there, who could hint > me to a solution? > > As far as I understood it, everything starts with a new package in the > hot-deploy folder. From there I can create and edit my new platform, > correct? Now, what I'm still not getting is, where the CMS and most > difficulty of all PartyManager comes into play. If I am really adding > everything by hand in form of XML-Screens in that hot-deploy folder, then > what would I need the cms/partymanager for? > > Is there a documentation available that gives me further insight into that > matter? > > >
