Overview

This page is a work-in-progress to document my progress in separating the ofbiz core from the rest of the applications to allow users to focus on using ofbiz as a standalone development framework.

Why?

Ofbiz is a very productive framework for creating enterprise applications. However, installing ofbiz with all of it's OOTB functionality just to use ofbiz as a development framework is a waste of resources. Also, newcomers to ofbiz may be put off by the complexity of ofbiz OOTB.

Ofbiz 9.04

I have chosen to base my instructions on Ofbiz 9.04 and not trunk because 9.04 is stable. Learning a new technology is always easier when working in a stable environment.

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At this stage, you don't have a mecanism for adding user logins or for setting user permissions.  This functionality will need to be created.

More to follow...

• Creating/Porting CRUD screens for:
  • User Login
  • Security Group
  • Party/Organisation

See also

There is a longer term effort looking at separating the framework, see Framework-only+distribution
Ofbiz as a development framework - release 10.04