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OpenQuote is an online Insurance Quotation solution, quotations can be produced and insurance products maintained over the web. Multiple insurance products can be configured to support any line of business via externalised product definitions and rules.

This Wiki provides resources for anyone interested in developing insurance products using OpenQuote, or interested in developing the OpenQuote system itself.

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OpenQuote User Guide not available in product download or on website: Hi Brendan, Thank you for your post and interest in OpenQuote. The pdf can be downloaded directly from here: [url=http://sourceforge.net/p/oquote/code/HEAD/tree/root/projects/openquote/1.4/community/openquote-community/docs/OpenQuote%201.2%20User%20Guide%20%28v0.3%29.pdf?format=raw]OpenQuote 1.2 User Guide 0.3.pdf[/url] Please accept my apologies for any problems the document issue you have experienced may have caused, we are aware of the issue and it should be resolved for release OpenQuote v2.0. Kind regards Matthew [?]
OpenQuote User Guide not available in product download or on website: Hi I am very interested in OpenQuote but I am finding it near impossible to get my hands on User Guide. I have tried searching website and I have also downloaded two product versions. There was a user guide in one of the downloads but when I opened it, there was 23 blank pages. Please could you send a copy of User Guide to btreacy19@gmail.com as I am really looking forward to checking out the product. Thanks Brendan Dublin Ireland [?]
Problem Installing: Hi, Everything looks fine until the last two lines: 11:18:41,212 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Failed to start modules I suspect there will be some clues in other parts of the log. Could you attach the whole thing to this thread please? Also, which platform are running OpenQuote on, which version of Java, and which version of MySQL. With that information I should be in a better position to help. Kind regards, Dick. [?]
OpenQuote 2.0 Early Access 1 is Released: The OpenQuote team are very pleased to announce that the first early access released of OpenQuote 2.0 is now available for download. This release marks a major milestone in the development of the next major version of the project and is the result of a lot hard work by the project's contributors. We hope you find it useful. Download from here: [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/oquote/files/oquote/2.0EA1/openquote-community-2.0EA1.zip/download[/url] We thrive on your comments, as do all open source projects, and we invite you to add your comments on the project to the "Ratings and Reviews" section of the project's sourceforge home page: [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/oquote/[/url] Details about this and other releases can be found on the project wiki here: [url]http://openquotecommunity.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes[/url] [?]
/oquote/2.0EA1/openquote-community-2.0EA1.zip: /oquote/2.0EA1/openquote-community-2.0EA1.zip [?]
2.0EA1 is released!: Finally. It's been quite a long haul to get here, but I've just published the first early access release of OpenQuote 2.0 to source forge as a packaged, downloadable binary.

Download it from here: openquote-community-2.0EA1.zip

Some screenshots... just because I can:

The old adage that in software development the last 20% of progress takes 80% of the effort seems accurate. Since I last blogged, some new features have been added, and some others improved. The intention that 2.0 should effectively deliver the same feature set as 1.4, just on a totally new platform still holds more or less true, but in some cases the new platform made it considerably easier to do things in a very much more technically concise and more user friendly way than was possible in 1.4.

A good example of this is the way the configure system and it's caching mechanism deal with changes at runtime. In the world of 1.4 a product developer would frequently have to manually reset configurations and clear caches to get their latest product change picked up. In 2.0, thanks to a Liferay document library event hook, a bit of JMS magic and some enhancements to the configuration services, it should never be necessary for a user to think about reseting configurations or clearing caches - it will all happen automatically.

A big chunk of the that last 20% was about testing and getting the new Bamboo server working (thanks again to Atlassian for letting the project use their OnDemand service). Historically, OpenQuote's continuous integration build didn't run any tests at all. Obviously, this is not a good thing. In fact, it's rather shameful, and something that 2.0 had to address. Now the unit tests and integration tests are run during each build. The UI tests are still manual.

The move to OnDemand Bamboo was far more involved that expected. Elastic bamboo is a truly fantastic thing though. Bamboo controls the builds, but all of the actual build activity takes place on Amazon EC2 instances which are started/stopped automatically as needed. Getting elastic bamboo up and running wasn't too much of a problem, but some curious build errors that couldn't be reproduced anywhere but on the build server caused a prolonged head scratching episode.

It turned out that the errors were caused by a configuration difference in MySQL. But I only found this out moments before the men in white coats were scheduled to arrive with some new brightly coloured smarties for me to try. On MacOS and Windows, MySQL installs itself by default to use case insensitive queries. On other flavours of Unix (e.g. our elastic bamboo instances) it is case sensitive by default. Simple when you know it, obvious even. But I'd been down any number of dead ends before I discovered this little nugget.

So, 2.0EA1 is finally out of the door. EA2 will not be too far behind it. The priority now is to split PageFlows out and make them independent of the quotation process so that they can be used for other things - like MTAs and Renewals, but also things which aren't related to policies at all. We also need to work on the themes. The new OpenQuote theme (did I mention that?) works well and keeps screen clutter to an absolute minimum, but it doesn't make the quote screens themselves look very pretty and we need new themes for the demo products too.

Much to be done. No time for rest!

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Problem Installing: I have this problem 11:18:39,422 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Checking for patches to apply ... 11:18:41,152 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Applying patch 'patch.db-V2.2-ACL' (Ensures that the database upgrade script has been run.). 11:18:41,152 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] The schema upgrade script, 'classpath:alfresco/dbscripts/upgrade/2.2/${db.script.dialect}/AlfrescoSchemaUpdate-2.2-ACL.sql', has not been run against this database. 11:18:41,182 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Found 0 module(s). 11:18:41,212 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Failed to start modules [?]
/oquote/2.0EA1: /oquote/2.0EA1 [?]
Please assist, OpenQuote Errors on Portal homepage: [quote=dickanderson]Hi, For production use on a public server, I would suggest the following steps: [ol][li]Security harden the operating system itself. The details depend on which OS you're using naturally, but you'll want to disable any guest logins and turn off all the services you don't need.[/li] [li]Install and harden MySQL. There are some notes on that here: [url]http://www.greensql.com/articles/mysql-security-best-practices[/url][/li] [li]Install and harden OpenQuote. In general, hardening OpenQuote means hardening JBoss. There are some notes here on that: [url]http://www.brucemartins.com/2012/06/securinghardening-jboss-as-42x-510-part.html[/url]. In addition to them, delete the "davy" user from OpenQuote and from Alfresco, and create new users with admin privileges before deleting the the "admin" users.[/li] [li]Install Apache and configure it to forward only known safe requests onto JBoss. There are some comments/links on this thread that might be useful: [url]http://www.openquote.appliedindustriallogic.com/community-support/support-forum/topic?id=345[/url][/li] [/ol] I hope that helps. If you need more information please feel free to post here. Alternatively, we will be happy to offer commercial support around setting up your server it that will help. Kind regards, Dick.[/quote] Hi Dick, I am interested in hosting/commercial support. I had spoken to Matthew about this. I want to only have the hosting and the initial set up though, I do not need the monthly $375, but the optional shared hosting plan which is for $75. Please advise on how to move forward. [?]
Please assist, OpenQuote Errors on Portal homepage: Hi, For production use on a public server, I would suggest the following steps: [ol][li]Security harden the operating system itself. The details depend on which OS you're using naturally, but you'll want to disable any guest logins and turn off all the services you don't need.[/li] [li]Install and harden MySQL. There are some notes on that here: [url]http://www.greensql.com/articles/mysql-security-best-practices[/url][/li] [li]Install and harden OpenQuote. In general, hardening OpenQuote means hardening JBoss. There are some notes here on that: [url]http://www.brucemartins.com/2012/06/securinghardening-jboss-as-42x-510-part.html[/url]. In addition to them, delete the "davy" user from OpenQuote and from Alfresco, and create new users with admin privileges before deleting the the "admin" users.[/li] [li]Install Apache and configure it to forward only known safe requests onto JBoss. There are some comments/links on this thread that might be useful: [url]http://www.openquote.appliedindustriallogic.com/community-support/support-forum/topic?id=345[/url][/li] [/ol] I hope that helps. If you need more information please feel free to post here. Alternatively, we will be happy to offer commercial support around setting up your server it that will help. Kind regards, Dick. [?]