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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

Uncovering artifact information


A little used but highly valuable tool that could save you hours of time researching how the various pieces of OFBiz fit together, the Artifact Info utility is a necessity for easily assembling OFBiz piece-part information (where OFBiz pieces are called "artifacts") into a coherent story. Artifacts may include anything and everything that goes into making up your OFBiz instance. This WebTool utility works with the following OFBiz artifacts: entities, widgets (screen, form, menu, tree), Events, Services, and controller.xml files.

Note

Note: to use this tool, set your min and max memory within your OFBiz startup file (or on the command line) generously as assembling artifact information consumes large amounts of memory!

Getting ready

To get started with the WebTools Artifact Info tool, either navigate to the WebTools main web page and select the Artifact Info navigation link, or go directly to the tool's URL located at:

https://localhost:8443/webtools/control...