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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

Java compile time CLASSPATH


The Java compiler uses information on the CLASSPATH to resolve references to Java classes that are present within your OFBiz program. Since there may be many class references within your Java code, OFBiz makes it easy to add classes and JAR files to the compile time CLASSPATH by providing the ANT tool.

Getting ready

Open the build.xml file in the Component that contains your Java source.

How to do it...

To add classes and JAR files to the compile time CLASSPATH, do as follows:

  1. 1. Locate the section within the build.xml file named local.class.path

  2. 2. Add your new JAR file or Java class file location within the path directive as shown in the following:

  1. 3. Save and close the file.

  2. 4. Invoke ANT to build your program with the new CLASSPATH entries.

How it works...

OFBiz provides a convenient tool in a pre-configured ANT build.xml file to manage the OFBiz compile time CLASSPATH. To add new compile time entries, simply modify the ANT build.xml file.