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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

Adding or changing SSL certificates


Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the protocol used by OFBiz to provide secure communications between browser clients and OFBiz webapps. Through SSL, secure communication sessions are enabled by using public and private keys to encrypt and decrypt messages on a user-by-user basis.

Internet web servers implementing SSL keep public keys in "certificates". When a browser or other web-based client lands on a secure web page, it will first query the server's SSL certificate to determine the server's identity, and then, based on that information, decide to request the server's public key so that it may continue to communicate using encrypted transmissions.

Note

Note: technically, the out-of-the-box servlet container (the "Catalina" servlet container and the "Tomcat" engine) provides the certificate exchange and encryption/decryption support. The OFBiz code seamlessly integrates this support so that applications need not worry about the details of secure Internet...