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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

Handling Service errors


OFBiz Services may complete successfully or return to the caller with one or more errors. Upon successful completion of a Service, OFBiz automatically commits any database transactions and maps the return parameters to the context before returning control to the caller.

If a Service encounters an error and returns to the caller through an error processing path, OFBiz will automatically rollback all transactions initiated for the Service and/or SECAs regardless of the Service definition settings. To manage error processing from within a Service implementation, use the OFBiz-provided Service utility API as shown in this recipe.

Getting ready

The following examples assume a Service implemented in Java. Other Service Engine supported languages will behave in a similar fashion, although utility usage (API) details may vary.

For Java and Groovy programs, be sure to include the OFBiz Service utility program with a Java package import statement:

import org.ofbiz.service.ServiceUtil...