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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

OFBiz SOAP messaging clients


Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is XML-based and consists of three parts:

  • An envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process the message

  • A set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined data types

  • A convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses

To illustrate just how easy it is to use OFBiz to create an unlimited number of SOAP-based web service clients, we shall discuss writing an SOAP-based client to request service from a real world web service: the U.S. National Weather Service's National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD). This web service provides a number of useful weather-related products. To keep our example simple, we shall request service from the NWS operation that provides the latitude and longitude for a given (valid) ZIP code. (Note: this web service only supports...