[OFBiz] Users - Question:The Ofbiz3.1 deploy in Jboss4.0.4?

[Florin T.PATRASCU (work)]

Hi there mate,

Why one will wish to install OFBiz under JBoss? OFBiz was designed to be 
a standalone all-in-one piece of software, and if you really need OFBiz 
for what it offers, than you shouldn't add to the mix an Application 
server like JBoss. On this topic, to be honest with you, some of my 
coworkers and I are not happy at all with the current trend OFBiz is 
approaching: "the Geronimo jump", this is how we call it. OFBiz is/was 
good as it is/was, easily configurable, easy to install, easy to start, 
easy to debug, easy to *demonstrate*, no app server dependencies, easy 
to scale, etc. Now, Geronimo will add a new set of rules and concerns, 
some of them very specific, such as: app server configuration, 
clustering, distributed session management, monitoring and control, 
etc., nevertheless the classpath issues (read here nightmare) you may 
encounter if you want to build your own "nested" app inside OFBiz. I 
personally believe that this "jump" is more a political one than a 
strategical one and I hope David and Co. here ;) will take the best 
decision. As far as we (my team and I) are concerned, the first thing 
we'll do when Geronimo+Ofbiz package will be ready, will be to .. 
un-pack it, and use OFBiz standalone :) unless there are very strong 
advantages in using Geronimo....

Anyways, to your point, in our case, at work, we have complex legacy 
applications running under JBoss and it may be your situation too. To 
make them work together with OFBiz, we bridged the legacy applications 
with OFBiz functions and data model by using JBoss MBEANS and it works 
great. The experience I gathered during that time is summarized in a 
simple article I wrote some time ago, article describing how one can use 
the Entity Engine and the Service Engine from a web app installed under 
JBoss and maybe you'll find it useful. Here's the link: 
http://weblog.flop.ca/2005/08/06/1123364832780.html

Lin, here's a 2 Canadian cents advice: use OFBiz *as is*! Is working! 
... if you know what you're doing ;)

Cheers,
-florin




林勇 wrote:
> All:
> How do you do!
> The Ofbiz3.1 deploy in Jboss4.0.4,Because the Jboss support J2EE 
> standard and free.It's real enterprise application environment.
> The Ofbiz deploy in Jboss application server,It should may structure 
> advanced enterprise application.Example:EIP.
> But the configure is difficult,Now,I need help.Have people successful?
>
> Lin Yong
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