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An open source Point of Sale software for computers and embedded devices made with Java

openbravopos

An open source Point of Sale software for computers and embedded devices made with Java

Introduction

Openbravo Java POS is a point of sale application designed for touch screens, supports ticket printers, customer displays and barcode scanners.

This project is entirely based on the original version stored at Sourceforge. Minor changes has been made in order to compile this project with the latest version of Java. Original license has not been modified in any way.

## How to compile? Netbeans is the preferred Java IDE to develop Openbravo POS because the Swing components of Openbravo POS have been developed with the visual editor of Netbeans, and in this edition is stored in *.form files that only Netbeans is able to interpret. You can download Netbeans from here. And there is a quick guide to develop with Netbeans here.

1. To create a new Netbeans project with the Openbravo sources, open Netbeans and select New project... to open the new project wizard, select Java Project with Existing Sources and press Next.
2. In the following step select the project name and the folder where the Netbeans project files will be stored and press Next. Do not select the same folder you checked out the sources.
3. In the following step select the source folders. Add the folders locales, reports, src-beans, src-data and src-pos. In this step you can press Finish.
4. The next step is to add the libraries needed to build and execute Openbravo POS. Open the Properties... dialog of the project and in the libraries section add all the *.jar files of the folder libs.
5. Now you have ready a Netbeans project configured than you can edit, build and test. To execute and debug Openbravo POS you need also to select the main class of the project. Open the Properties... dialog and in the run section Openbravo select com.openbravo.pos.forms.StartPOS as the Main Class and press OK.

## Documentation See http://wiki.openbravo.com for more documentation.

Reporting issues

Issues can be reported via the Github issue tracker.

Please take the time to review existing issues before submitting your own to prevent duplicates. Incorrect or poorly formed reports are wasteful and are subject to deletion.

Submitting fixes and improvements

Fixes and improvements are submitted as pull requests via Github.