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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

Protecting OFBiz web pages


Any web page may be set to require user authentication by way of the OFBiz login process by setting the corresponding request-map entry in the controller.xml file. A user need only log in one time per session as OFBiz will check each request for a protected web page against a requesting visitor's login status. If the requestor is already logged in, they will not be asked to login again. If the visitor is not logged in, they will be presented with an HTML login form.

Getting ready

Identify the web application and the web page, OFBiz Service, or OFBiz Event that requires user authentication.

How to do it...

You can protect your web pages by following these steps:

  1. 1. Open the appropriate controller.xml file containing the request-map entry for the web page to protect.

  2. 2. Edit the request-map entry for the URI to be protected by setting the security element's auth attribute to true. For example, the following request-map has both the authorization and encryption (https...