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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 SOAP-compliant web services


If publishing SOAP web service WSDLs seemed rather easy, then publishing SOAP-based web services is not much harder. OFBiz makes the task of taking any service and making it SOAP compatible a snap. This leaves the Service designer and developer to figure out how to process the business logic that makes up your service's product.

In this section, we shall create a new OFBiz SOAP-based web service. We shall proceed by first creating an OFBiz Service, and then configuring this service to use the existing OFBiz SOAP event handler, so that we may transparently handle SOAP messages. That is all we need to do to become an SOAP-based web service provider.

Our OFBiz Service is very simple: when a consumer asks for service at our published web service URL, we respond by:

  1. 1. Querying the configured data source (database) for a list of product names.

  2. 2. Returning to the client, an XML document with the product list, in the properly wrapped SOAP envelope.

To keep this...