Getting Started with OpenMRS

[Rohit Mukherjee]

Hi, I'm new to OpenMRS and have followed the new developer getting started guides and so far managed to do the following:

1) Eclipse set up, Maven Clean Install and Jetty Run

2) I created an empty db and imported some static data 

3) I can use the web app on port 8080, login and manage patient records

I would really appreciate if some one could answer the following questions

1) Is there anywhere I can get an idea of the architecture of the system?

2) Could anyone recommend any Ebooks/online tutorials to get quickly acquainted with the stack ( I have experience in Java and web apps in HTML,JS,SQL)

3) How do I assign myself a ticket , and are there any intro tickets you could recommend ( I saw the list but couldn't pick a good starting point).

Thank you, sorry for the trouble

[Harsha Kumara]

Hi Rohit,

Please find my comments inline!

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Rohit Mukherjee <mukherje...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I'm new to OpenMRS and have followed the new developer getting started guides and so far managed to do the following:

1) Eclipse set up, Maven Clean Install and Jetty Run

2) I created an empty db and imported some static data 

3) I can use the web app on port 8080, login and manage patient records

I would really appreciate if some one could answer the following questions

1) Is there anywhere I can get an idea of the architecture of the system?

There are many resources for get a idea of OpenMRS architecture.You may do a search in openmrs wiki which is in here. 

Meanwhile I have seen a  youtube video which describes the openmrs architecture which you can find in here.

OpenMRS has modular architecture which is describe in here.

2) Could anyone recommend any Ebooks/online tutorials to get quickly acquainted with the stack ( I have experience in Java and web apps in HTML,JS,SQL)

Spring and Hibernate are the major frameworks use to implement the OpenMRS. These frameworks are written in Java so you can catch them very quickly sinc you have experience in Java and SQL.

There is a EHSDI Training Course which contains many useful presentations relates to OpenMRS development so you can find them in here.

Meanwhile you can have a look at a quick Spring and Hibernate tutorials available in the web.There out many resources to learn these frameworks within very short amount of time.

Documents on OpenMRS developer guide can be find in here.

3) How do I assign myself a ticket , and are there any intro tickets you could recommend ( I saw the list but couldn't pick a good starting point).

For answers for this question can be find in getting started as a developer wiki which can be find in here. 

Thank you, sorry for the trouble

No troubles at all. :D. 

 

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Harsha

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[Shirin Rad]

Dear Rohit,

I am exactly in the same step that you are, and I'd be appreciated that let me know when you get response.

Thank you so much,

Shirin

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[Elliott Williams]

Hi Shirin and Rohit—you both might be interested in the "getting started for developers" book a few members of the community wrote last week at the Google Doc Camp[1]. Since it was written literally a few days ago it should be quite up to date and fairly comprehensive.

I don't think it's available online yet but it should be very soon!

Elliott

P.S. those talented authors are Michael Downey, Elyse Voegeli, Jordan Kellerstrass, Daniel Kayiwa, Eric Holscher and Suranga :-)

[1]: http://www.booksprints.net/2013/10/2013-google-doc-camp-done/

[Power, Chris]

Keep up the great communication everyone.  It’s nice to see!

 

Michael,

 

                Do we have a mechanism already in place to track these common questions to getting started that you’d like me to use or should we discuss this later so we can make sure it gets into an update of the “getting started”?

 

Chris

[Michael Downey]

+cc Elyse our documentation lead and book owner for guidance. :-)

Best regards,

Michael Downey
OpenMRS Community Infrastructure Team
mic...@openmrs.org - http://openmrs.org/

[Burke Mamlin]

One option is to enter them into answers.openmrs.org with a "getting-started" label.

-Burke