Re: Fail installing apache-ofbiz-17.12.04 on windows 10

[Michael Brohl]

Thanks, Jacques.

As an addition: the Oracle JDK 8 is out of free support (no security fixes or else without paid subscription). To get free bug/security fixes you'll have to switch to the next JDK version about every 6 months which is not practicable in a serious production environment. The Adopt OpenJDK Long Term Support (LTS) releases are maintained much longer without any fee. See https://adoptopenjdk.net/support.html for the release roadmap.

Best regards,

Michael Brohl

ecomify GmbH - www.ecomify.de


Am 15.08.20 um 14:43 schrieb Jacques Le Roux:

This gives us enough time tp prepare for the next LTS version and users are not forced to switch without enough testing time. We are using the Adopt OpenJDK releases in our customer/internal production systems for quite a while now and haven't had any problems so far. Regarding the install: you do not have to uninstall other Java installations to make OFBiz work on your machine. Just unpack the JDK in your preferred folder and point the JAVA_HOME environment variable to this folder. I recommend doing this in the start/stop scripts to avoid problems with other applications relying on the JAVA_HOME from the global Windows environment variables.

Hi Georg,

We preconise to use https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html

And exactly for OFBiz https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html?variant=openjdk8&jvmVariant=hotspot (All OFBiz versions currently support only Java 8)

HTH

Jacques

Le 15/08/2020 à 06:55, Georg Potthast a écrit :

Just saw a bug in my notes. I had tried Java 14.0.2 first which failed and left that in the notes. It should read:

JAVA_HOME to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_261



-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Georg Potthast
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2020 6:35 AM
To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
Subject: Re: Fail installing apache-ofbiz-17.12.04 on windows 10




Install OFBiz on Microsoft Windows 10

1. Uninstall Java Runtime  to get JDK and JRE to the same version

2. Download Java SE JDK
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-glance.html

that version.


the default file paths.

4. Download the OFBiz ZIP archive
https://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html

5. Unpack the directory apache-ofbiz-17.12.04 in the zip file.
You can rename this directory to e.g. c:\ofbiz

6. Set the environment variables
control panel – extended system settings – environment variables, new
JAVA_HOME variable
JAVA_HOME to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-14.0.2
test the setting of this variable in the command window:
C:\Users\Potthast>echo %JAVA_HOME%
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-14.0.2

Add paths to system path variable:

path variable
%JAVA_HOME% (=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-14.0.2)
%JAVA_HOME\bin%
close these windows again to get Windows to enable these

7. Test the path variable
open new command window
enter java
enter javac
if these output a lot of explanations, your are ok

8. Test OFBiz
Open the INSTALL file and follow the instructions in there

open a command window in administrator mode

as administrator
get into the ofbiz directory you created, e.g. c:\ofbiz
enter:
init-gradle-wrapper (=init-gradle-wrapper.bat)

and then enter:
gradlew cleanAll loadAll (=gradlew.bat cleanAll loadAll)
allow this script to download files when queried by Windows

Finally start OFBiz by entering: gradlew ofbiz

that from your desktop to restart it conveniantly.

So replace "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-14.0.2" with "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_261" in the notes. I recently installed OFBiz on my Windows 10 system and made notes how I did it, so I can repeat it on a different machine if necessary. Hope this helps. Use the Java SE 8u261 version. Register with Oracle to be able to download 3. Run the downloaded file and install the Java JDK and JRE. Do not modify control panel – extended system settings – environment variables, existing for that right-click on the start button, open search, enter cmd and execute You can make a startofbiz.bat file with this command and generate a link to OFBiz will compile and start. When the message OFBiz is started and ready appears, followed by several further messages, it will stop with the prompt :ofbiz. Then open a browser window and enter https://localhost:8443/webtools

(or ecommerce, or catalog)

The default login is admin, password ofbiz

9. Stopping OFBiz

You may use Ctrl+C in the terminal were you started OFBiz.

The „official“ way, which takes way longer, is to open another terminal and navigate to the ofbiz directory. In there enter gradlew „ofbiz --shutdown“

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