Re: [Opensubsystems-discuss] Help with OpenSubsystems

[Miroslav H. <mi...@op...>]

Hello Sam,

thank you for your interest in OpenSubsystems and I apologize for late 
reply due to holidays in US. I am reposting your message also to our 
mailing list

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensubsystems-discuss

for the benefit of others. Regarding building OpenInventory. We have not 
released an official package but the version in CVS is fully buildable. 
In last few weeks I have been doing lots of changes in the code due to 
the upcoming release of OpenPatterns so the CVS was little unstable at 
times but now everything builds and all the JUnit tests pass. First 
download the source code from CVS:

http://www.opensubsystems.org/connectingtocvs.html

and then you can use the steps described in

http://www.opensubsystems.org/buildprocess.html

to build OpenInventory using ant build file build-inventory.xml
This should created new directory in

\Development\OpenSubsystems\generated\inventory\distribution

with all the required libraries that you have to use in your 
application. The next step is to look at generated JavaDoc in

\Development\OpenSubsystems\generated\security\docs

especially at the data model in package

org.opensubsystems.inventory.data

and in

org.opensubsystems.inventory.logic

In general you should use controllers to exercise functionality provided 
by the OpenInventory and the data model. This should give you hint how 
to use the controllers

http://www.opensubsystems.org/core/quickstart.html#controllermanager

OpenChronicle tutorial will give you little insight into how we imagine 
the application should be constructed

http://www.opensubsystems.org/chronicle/index.html

The code in CVS is slightly different than what the documentation says 
but please feel free to post to the mailing list and I will help you 
with that. If you will have any specific question or problem with 
something please feel free to post to the mailing list and I will reply.

Hope this helps to get you started,

Miro Halas





> The following information was submitted to you on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 6:03 AM GMT.
> 
> I've been going through your project's docs & tutorial and loving the idea of what you're doing. I originally stumbled across OpenSubsystems because I need an asset management system and none of the current open sources projects seem to cut it. Unfortunately I'm having a few problems getting to grips with building the project or how I should be using the code and was wondering if there was any specific documentation on getting OpenInventory deployed or if someone could even point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sam Gaw