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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

Creating a FreeMarker transform


If none of the existing FreeMarker transforms meet your requirements, you may always create your own. FreeMarker transforms are Java classes configured to perform an inline conversion when used within a FreeMarker template.

How to do it...

To create your own FreeMarker transform, follow these steps:

  1. 1. Create the Java class that implements the TemplateTransformModel Java class.

  2. 2. Rebuild the Component containing the transform.

  3. 3. Add the transform's Java class package name to the following Java property file so that it will be loaded on the CLASSPATH and available for use:

    ~framework/webapp/config/freemarkerTransforms.properties

  4. 4. Restart OFBiz.

  5. 5. Use the transform in a FreeMarker template by wrapping content in the transform tags.

How it works...

Writing a Java FreeMarker transformation is a simple way of extending FreeMarker data formatting capabilities for use across the entire OFBiz instance.

There's more...

There are many examples of custom FreeMarker transformations...