Many shapes of Architecture # According to the wise people, an architecture is the shared understanding that the expert developers/system builders/maintainers have of the system design. It’s purpose is to maximize the probability that the decisions you have to make early in a project are the right ones. It is sort of a blueprint for the future system and captures parts, relations, boundaries, constraints.
Installing and running “naked” hybris platform # Log of an exercise to install and start the Hybris without all those fancy modules
Starting point: hybris-platform-4.7.1.zip
Install point: /opt/hybris-platform/hybris-platform-4.7.1
Start (with HSQLdb) # ~ $ cd /opt/hybris-platform/hybris-platform-4.7.1 hybris-platform-4.7.1 $ cd bin/platform/ platform $ pwd /opt/hybris-platform/hybris-platform-4.7.1/bin/platform platform $ . ./setantenv.sh Setting ant home to: /opt/hybris-platform/hybris-platform-4.7.1/bin/platform/apache-ant-1.8.2 Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on April 21 2011 platform $ ant clean all | tee ant-clean-all.log => Select develop
I was aching to blog about this since December 18th, when our system quietly and gently slipped into public visibility. Marked as Beta (thanks, Google for making this a legitimate way how to go live) it comfortably made it through Christmas shopping season into 2009.
Now when the site has been announced and mentioned few times in the media, I guess it's OK to mention it here too.
What is "it" ? A new, fresh eCommerce site selling music. A lots of really good music. Without any DRM or any other nonsense, as plain good high quality (mostly 320 kps) MP3's. The selection is actually very good - starting from several hundred thousands in December to several few million songs when full catalog is loaded. More great music being added every week.