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Apache OfBiz Cookbook

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Apache OfBiz Cookbook

Overview of this book

Apache Open For Business (OFBiz) is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that provides a common data model and an extensive set of business processes. But without proper guidance on developing performance-critical applications, it is easy to make the wrong design and technology decisions. The power and promise of Apache OFBiz is comprehensively revealed in a collection of self-contained, quick, practical recipes in this Cookbook. This book covers a range of topics from initial system setup to web application and HTML page creation, Java development, and data maintenance tasks. Focusing on a series of the most commonly performed OFBiz tasks, it provides clear, cogent, and easy-to-follow instructions designed to make the most of your OFBiz experience. Let this book be your guide to enhancing your OFBiz productivity by saving you valuable time. Written specifically to give clear and straightforward answers to the most commonly asked OFBiz questions, this compendium of OFBiz recipes will show you everything you need to know to get things done in OFBiz. Whether you are new to OFBiz or an old pro, you are sure to find many useful hints and handy tips here. Topics range from getting started to configuration and system setup, security and database management through the final stages of developing and testing new OFBiz applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Apache OFBiz Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Using Java properties files


Java properties files are a native Java mechanism for maintaining a set of persistent values, called "properties", across invocations of the JVM. They are typically files that are persistent to the local file system.

Properties files consist of one or more key/value pairs, very much like a Java Map structure.

How to do it...

The following code snippet demonstrates finding the value for the CommonDatabaseProblem key from the CommonUiLabels Java property file:

import org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilProperties;
errMsg = UtilProperties.getMessage("CommonUiLabels",
"CommonDatabaseProblem", messageMap, locale);

How it works...

OFBiz makes using Java properties files convenient and easy by loading them as resources on the Java CLASSPATH and providing several utility methods to access file contents.

See also

Please see the OFBiz UtilProperties API:

http://ci.apache.org/projects/ofbiz/site/javadocs/