OFBiz may be rebuilt from source code at any time. Included with the download are all the scripts necessary to recreate OFBiz from source by the following recipe.
The following prerequisites have to be ensured:
1. Navigate to the OFBiz install directory.
2. Open a command-line window.
3. Stop OFBiz if it is running (either use the provided script per the operating system in use or, for Unix systems, kill the OFBiz process).
To build an OFBiz instance, follow these steps:
1. From the OFBiz install directory, run the following command:
ant
2. When the command-line prompt is returned, restart OFBiz. Rebuilds are effective after restart.
OFBiz consists of many artifacts, including plenty of Java code. To recompile and reassemble the OFBiz Java code into an executable package, the Apache ANT Java build tool is used. Without making further changes from the initial download, invoking ant
from the OFBiz install directory without any...