Getting Started - Developers
Pre-Requisites
- For 18.12, the ofbiz-framework trunk and ofbiz-plugins trunk the minimum requirement you need installed is Java 1.8 SDK.
- Apache OFBiz can be downloaded and run on both Unix based and Windows based systems
NOTE: If you are running an older release or branch then please refer to our Wiki for details
Download
There are two ways to download the OFBiz source code
1. Using a Download Mirror
Download your required version from one of our download mirrors and extract the zip file
2. Checkout the Source Code
Checkout the source code from the repository
Anyone can checkout or browse the source code in the OFBiz GitHub repositories.
To checkout the source code, simply use the following commands (if you are using a GUI client, configure it appropriately).
We have split OFBiz into ofbiz-framework and ofbiz-plugins, so if you want to use the ofbiz-plugins you need to checkout both trunks.
- ofbiz-framework trunk :
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework.git ofbiz-framework - ofbiz-plugins trunk :
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-plugins.git plugins - branch release18.12 (stable):
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework.git ofbiz-framework - If you don't want to use the HEAD version (Git default, with last bug fixes), you can update the tags before.
You can refer to the site download page for the stable version to use.
Note that you need to add "release"in the name before, like in "release18.12.10", eg with releaseVersionNumber as a var:git fetch --all --tags$ git checkout releaseVersionNumber - branch release18.12 (stable):
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-plugins.git ofbiz-plugins $ git checkout releaseVersionNumber
Build and Run
Once you have downloaded the source code it will need to be built.
Building Release 18.12
To build 18.12 release, navigate to the OFBiz or framework-trunk directory and;
Run the following command for Unix-like OS
./gradlew cleanAll loadDefault
Run the following command for MS Windows
gradlew cleanAll loadDefault
Building the Trunk
To build the trunk, navigate to the framework-trunk directory and;
Run the following command for Unix-like OS
./gradlew cleanAll loadAll
Run the following command for MS Windows
gradlew cleanAll loadAll
Starting and Running 18.12 or the ofbiz-framework trunk
To start OFBiz running locally, navigate to the trunk directory and;
Run the following command for Unix-like OS
./gradlew ofbiz
Run the following command for MS Windows
gradlew ofbiz
To log into OFBiz, navigate with your browser to
https://localhost:8443/accounting
and login with username "admin" and password "ofbiz"
Stopping OFBiz
To stop OFBiz running locally, open a command line terminal window and navigate to the OFBiz directory and;
Run the following command for Unix-like OS
./gradlew 'ofbiz --shutdown'
Run the following command for MS Windows
gradlew ofbiz --shutdown
NOTE: That quotes are needed for the Unix based command. For further details and a full list of all available OFBiz Gradle commands, please take a look at the main
README file.
If you are an user migrating from a version which uses Ant you might be interested by:
From Ant to Gradle
Browse Repository
You can browse the repository using any of the following links.
Our ofbiz-framework trunk and ofbiz-plugins trunk are also available on GitHub at the links below:
Development Tutorial
To help you getting started we have put together a beginners OFBiz development tutorial to get familiar with with OFBiz.
It covers the fundamentals of the OFBiz application development process. The goal of this tutorial is to acquaint a developer with best practices, coding conventions. the control flow and things that the developer needs to know in order to modify OFBiz
Documentation and Help
We have a range of technical documenentation and help for developers. Please see the links below.
OFBiz API Reference
After consulting the documentation you still have questions,please feel free to post questions on our development mailing list.