[OPEN-ILS-DEV] woodchip configuration management

[Bill Erickson]

On 8/27/07, Bill Erickson <erickson at esilibrary.com> wrote:
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> On 8/27/07, Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com> wrote:
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> > Just a quick update to let you know what I learned on the ofbiz and
> > opentaps discussion lists about how people manage their applications
> > with revision control while retaining the ability to upgrade easily to
> > the latest/greatest ofbiz code.
> >
> > It seems that the general consensus [1,2] is to bundle customizations
> > as an 'application' in ofbiz/applications. We can keep this code in
> > the woodchip subversion repository. When building the application(s)
> > can be checked out from svn, tested and then installed into an
> > existing ofbiz/opentaps instance. Presumably the component-load.xml
> > will need a bit of a tweak as well so that the application is loaded.
> > I imagine we can start out automating this with an ant build.xml and
> > move on from there to maven or something more fancy only if necessary.
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> Cool.  That makes sense to me.
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> In the cases when modifying the core framework is absolutely necessary
> > the lead developers for ofbiz and opentaps encourage:
> >
> > - using existing ofbiz override and extension mechanisms (examples of
> > which are in  the exampleext component and the ecomclone webapp)
> > - committing changes back to the ofbiz project
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> Are we considering editing built-in XML config files "modifying the core
> framework"?  With my experiments thus far, those are the only changes I've
> had to make to existing components.
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> Those changes are made to replace the LoginWorker code.   Hmm...  I'll do
> some poking around and see if there is an existing mechanism for overriding
> that (that doesn't involve editing the component XML files).  I doubt there
> is, though, since the class name itself is hard-coded in the XML files...
>

... and, if there is no mechanism, we may be able to submit a patch to OFBIZ
that allows you to define symbolic names/variables to the java LoginWorker
class, similar to the way they handle the configurable security class.

-bill



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Bill Erickson
Equinox Software, Inc.
erickson at esilibrary.com
http://esilibrary.com/
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