Howtos

This howto provides a summary of links and steps required go get a working development setup. If you haven't setup OFBiz yet, then check out OFBiz - Getting started post.  read more »

Apache OFBiz (http://ofbiz.apache.org) is one of the leading open source ERP / e-commerce projects. This howto would cover the initial setup steps

Best place to get started
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Demo+and+Test+Setup+Guide

However, before you start following the guide you would need a few things such as JDK, SVN and ANT. If you don't know how to set these up follow the rest of the howto.

Installing JDK  read more »

There are many open-source projects that are written in Java- such as Google's Android Mobile Platform.
If you've just started learning Java and would like to improve your Java skills here some useful tutorials and links.

Sun's Java resources.
The best place to learn about Java and Java APIs is of course the Sun website.This is the "official" Java learning material.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/index.html
https://javatutorials.dev.java.net/

Forums  read more »

Useful links to understand compressing and extracting files on Linux

1.RedHat
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/getting-started-...

2.Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FileCompression

Example walk-thru
http://easierbuntu.blogspot.com/2008/10/tar-files.html

3.Debian Linux
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/harddisk.htm

To set up the android development environment on Ubuntu we need to first make sure that we have the correct version of Java set up on our machine.

Android (1.5) can run on either Sun JDK5 or JDK6.Its best to setup your Ubuntu box with JDK6.

Open up the terminal and type:

java –version

This will give you the default list of java versions installed on your machine.
If you have installed Sun’s JDK6 correctly you should get something like this:  read more »