ADempiere "development box"

Introduction

This is a Vagrant configuration to set up a complete, virtualized development environment for ADempiere developers.

1. Usage
2. Installation
3. Customize your virtual machine
4. Configure your new box and install new software

Usage

The ADempiere "development box" is a complete development environment for ADempiere developers.

It requires to have Vagrant installed on your machine.

It is fully based on Open Source software, most importantly:

• Ubuntu
• OpenJDK (Oracle JDK can't be used because of license issues)
• Docker and Docker Compose (see the ADempiere Docker Compose documentation to learn how to run your application, database or even a full micro-service architecture with Docker)
• Ubuntu Make so you can easily install your favorite IDE (type umake ide idea for Intellij IDEA or umake ide eclipse for Eclipse)
• Chromium and Firefox Web browsers

This "development box" also have all client applications useful for working with a ADempiere application:

• MySQL Workbench
• pgAdmin 3

Installation

The "Quick installation" provides a pre-build Virtual Machine, and the "Manual installation" let you build your Virtual Machine yourself. We recommend you use the "Quick installation" if you don't know which option to choose.

Quick installation

Pre-built distributions of this "development box" are available on Atlas.

To install the latest distribution, please run:

On Mac or Linux

vagrant init adempiere/adempiere-devbox; vagrant up --provider virtualbox

On Windows

vagrant init adempiere/adempiere-devbox

vagrant up --provider virtualbox

You can then tune your installation, by following the next sections on customizing and configuring your "development box".

Manual installation

This generates a new "development box" directly from this repository.

• Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/adempiere/vagrant-adempiere-devbox.git
• It is wise to use a tag to have a stable version: the ADempiere DevBox tags are the same as the ADempiere ERP tags, so using the DevBox v3.8.0 also means using the ADempiere ERP v3.8.0
• Run vagrant up

Customize your virtual machine

This is very important! Modify your system properties, depending on your host's hardware. We recommend, at least:

• 4 CPUs
• 8 Gb of RAM
• 128 Mb of video RAM

Configure your new box and install new software

Start up the new box:

• Login using the vagrant user (not the 'Ubuntu' user which is selected by default)
  • Password is vagrant (please note that default keyboard layout is US!)
• Configure your keyboard, if you are not using an English keyboard, once you have logged in:
  • Go to Settings > Keyboard
  • Open the Layout tab
  • Untick the Use system default box
  • Use the + sign to add your keyboard layout
• Configure your IDE
  • Use Ubuntu Make so you can easily install your favorite IDE:
    • Type umake ide idea for Intellij IDEA
    • Type umake ide eclipse for Eclipse
• Configure you browser
  • Firefox is installed
  • Chromium, which is the Open-Source version of Google Chrome, is also installed
• Other available tools
  • Guake is installed, hit "F12" to have your terminal
  • The Atom text editor is installed
• Configure your database
  • Run your database with Docker. For example, for MySQL use docker-compose -f src/main/docker/mysql.yml up