[jira] [Updated] (OFBIZ-7534) Migrate OFBiz from Apache Ant to Gradle build system

["Taher Alkhateeb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7534?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Taher Alkhateeb updated OFBIZ-7534:
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    Attachment: OFBIZ-7534.patch

In addition to everything mentioned in the previous patches, this patch introduces a skeleton for an OFBiz plug-in system.

How did we design it
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- Add all the components defined in framework/component-load.xml as gradle subprojects
- Add all the components defined in applications/component-load.xml as gradle subprojects
- Add all the components defined in specialcomponents/component-load.xml as gradle subprojects
- Add the start component as a gradle subproject
- Add all the components in /hot-deploy as gradle subprojects
- Each subproject can _optionally_ have a build.gradle script
- If a directory exists in framework, applications or specialpurpose but is not defined in component-load.xml, then it will be considered a dead folder, it will not even compile and it will not be part of OFBiz and your IDE will ignore it.

What are the benefits
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- Each subproject can declare its own library dependencies in its own build.gradle away from the framework
- Compilation, running, and testing is centralized at the master build script, making the subproject build scripts very small
- It is very easy now to "turn on" or "turn off" a plugin with a build script that simply removes/adds it to component-load.xml!
- We can now design a full plug-in API and can design a full eco-system around OFBiz.
- If we decide to, we do not _have to_ compile and test everything, we can offload the maintenance of plugins to specialized teams, or even to third parties.

> Migrate OFBiz from Apache Ant to Gradle build system
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>
>                 Key: OFBIZ-7534
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7534
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ALL COMPONENTS
>    Affects Versions: Upcoming Branch
>            Reporter: Taher Alkhateeb
>            Assignee: Taher Alkhateeb
>              Labels: ant, build-tools, gradle
>         Attachments: ANT_GRADLE_COMPARISON.txt, OFBIZ-7534.patch, OFBIZ-7534.patch, OFBIZ-7534.patch, OFBIZ-7534.patch, build.gradle, gradle-wrapper.jar
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> This is a major refactoring task referring to the [email thread|http://ofbiz.markmail.org/message/vstt3wxuubmjgmqj?q=Important+Changes+to+Trunk+and+Use+of+Ant+%26+Gradle] in which the community voted for the switch after a proposal from the PMC
> The purpose of this JIRA is to achieve the following objectives
> - Fully implement a working compiling system in Gradle that passes all tests
> - Remove all ant and maven build scripts from the system
> - update the documentation of the system to reflect these changes



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