Sunday, September 17, 2006

Overactive Logistics Pre Alpha 1.2 released

WHAT IS OVERACTIVE LOGISTICS
Overactive Logistics is a freight forwarding open source software solution being developed for the cargo transportation industry.
It runs in both web based or stand alone modes and provides a graphical user interface with rich client capabilities.

UNDER WHAT OPEN SOURCE LICENSE IS OVERACTIVE LOGISTICS RELEASED
Overactive Logistics is being release under the Overactive Source Public License which is a derivative from the Mozilla Public License.

WHAT ARE THE GOALS FOR THE FIRST BETA VERSION
The initial Beta version aims to provide the following modules:

-Outgoing Shipments (Air, Ground, Ocean)
-Incoming Shipments (Air, Ground, Ocean)
-SCAC maintenance
-IATA maintenance
-FMC maintenance
-Vendor maintenance
-Carrier maintenace (Air, Land, Ocean)
-Forwarding Agent maintenance
-Ports maintenance
-Schedule D maintenance
-Schedule K maintenance
-Customer maintenance
-Security roles maintenance
-Users maintenance
-Company maintenance
-Reports

WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS VERSION (PRE ALPHA 1.2)
This version was refactored to implement the latest and official version of EJB 3.0. The Carrier maintenance module was also refactore so the
three types of Carriers (Air, Land, Ocean) are now mapped to a single CARRIER database table.
This version also includes the release of the Shipment maintenance module (work in progress) that is capable of creating Air, Land and Ocean
shipments.

-Vendor maintenance
-SCAC maintenance
-IATA maintenance
-FMC maintenance
-Carrier maintenace (Air, Land, Ocean)
-Forwarding Agent maintenance
-Ports maintenance
-Schedule D maintenance
-Schedule K maintenance
-Customer maintenance
-Security roles maintenance
-Users maintenance
-Company maintenance
-An snapshoot of Outgoing Shipments (Air, Ground, Ocean)

HOW TO INSTALL

Please note that this section lists a high level overview of the installation. For a more detailed guide please visit the following link: Overactive Logistics Installation

Software requirements
-JBoss 4.0.4 GA
-MySQL Server 5.0
-MySQL Administrator 1.1.4
-MySQL Connector/J 5.0
-Web browser with Java Plug-in 1.4.0 or higher

Database creation (using MySQL Administrator)
-Create a new database schema (catalog) called LOGISTICS
-Do a "Restore" using the "logistics.sql" backup file in the newly created "Target Schema" LOGISTICS

Application deployment (in JBoss)
-Type the database user name and password where required inside the file mysql-ds.xml and deploy it in JBoss
-Deploy the mysql-connector-java-5.0.3-bin.jar driver in JBoss
-Deploy the overactive-logistics.ear in JBoss

Running the aplication
-Open your web browser and type the following link:
http://localhost:8080/logistics/
-Once the login screen shows up access the application using the following:
User : admin
Password: admin

WHERE TO GET UP TO DATE INFORMATION ABOUT PROJECT STATUS
You can get information about the project current status and development efforts in our blog located at:
http://overactive-logistics.blogspot.com/

HOW TO CONTACT US
You can contact us sending us an email to:
overactive.source@gmail.com

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Added formatted textfield capabilities.

The Overactive Renderer has been enchanced to support formatted textfields by producing JFormattedTextField components with specific mask formats.

The formats supported are String, Integer, Time, Float, Short, Double, Long, Byte, Currency, Phone and Character.

During the past few weeks I implemented the necesary changes in Overactive Logistics to make use of this feature.

Here are some screenshoots showing the Phone and Time formats.