mohamedhamedgvc/gvctoolkit

Developing A national technology toolkit, integrating technologies of BPM , web services, and RFID to consolidate Egyptian manufacturing

Introduction

Today’s manufacturing enterprises rarely live in isolation. They need to be connected in order to create products from which a group of enterprises, called global-value-chain (GVC), can derive higher value. These chains need to communicate intelligently. This means, the production planning and control systems (known as Enterprise-Resources-Planning ERP) of the chain members should interoperate digitally without human intervention.
This product is for the outcome of a research project that is funded by the Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF project 14973), to create a software product serving the digital transformation, of the Egyptian manufacturing companies. It allows a manufacturing company to be a member of a distributed manufacturing network.
The resulting system can be plugged into any ERP system. In this work, the limitation of a centralized integration entity to satisfy loosely coupling of distributed systems is overcome.
The SOA framework and the remote method invocation (RMI) are applied using SOAP-XML technology. Enterprise integration patterns (EIP) were used in the architecture design.
Factories can thus plug in international manufacturing networks, expanding the target market for the Egyptian industry. Being a plug-in component means a core feature of the developed software product is loose coupling, which provides the following key attributes:
• Services are invoked remotely independently of their technology, any third part centralized entity, and location
• The plug-in component does not impose any restrictions on the hosting ERP system
• The software is easily configurable to fit the member platform easily

Installation

Pre-requisites

MySQL

For windows operating system use below direct link to download MySQL 5.7 https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.7.html then flow the wizard steps Notes:

• Select Server and Workbench
• set default root password to root (Otherwise you need to change password in installation steps) For other operation systems and installation details, please check below URL https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/installing.html

Java

Download and install java 8 or newer, you can get it from below URL https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

Installation

For windows installation:
1- Download MySQL dump file from gvc-mysql.sql
2- Open MySQL Workbench
3- Create a new schema gvc
4- Import downloaded file into schema gvc
5- Download gvctoolkit-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.exe or gvctoolkit-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
6- Download application.properties
7- Create folder c:\gvc ( can be any folder)
8- Copy gvctoolkit-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar and application.properties to c:\gvc
9- Update application.properties ( change username / password for mysql database if not root/root , change hostname if not localhost )
10- Run application gvctoolkit-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
11- Open browser http://localhost:8080
12- Login using username and password (admin/admin)