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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

Calling asynchronous Services from HTML forms


You can use WebTools and HTML forms to run a Service asynchronously either one time or on a recurring basis. The following demonstrates the steps necessary to schedule testScv to be executed one time, asynchronously, as a scheduled job.

Getting ready

Navigate directly to the Schedule Job web page.

~https://localhost:8443/webtools/control/scheduleJob

How to do it...

To execute testScv asynchronously follow, these steps:

  1. 1. In the Service form field, enter in testScv as shown in the screenshot.

  2. 2. Leave the Job field empty. OFBiz will pick a unique name automatically.

  3. 3. Use the calendar pop-up icon directly next to the Start Date/Time field to select any date and time after the current wall clock time.

Field

Usage

Pool

By default, only one thread pool, called pool, is configured. To add more thread pools, see the serviceengine.xml file.

Frequency

A frequency of None tells OFBiz to run this Service once.

Interval

Interval is used with...