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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 new seed data files


Seed data files are used to load the OFBiz database—sometimes referred to as "seeding" the database—with data whenever the ANT database data loading targets are called. You may create new seed data files as needed. Each Component may have one or more seed data files, and OFBiz supports an unlimited number of seed data files across the installation.

Getting ready

Navigate to the top-level directory for the component that will contain the new seed data file.

How to do it...

Follow this recipe to create new seed data files:

  1. 1. Open the ofbiz-component.xml file in an editor of your choice.

  2. 2. Add an entity-resource XML declaration with the seed data file's location as shown here. The location attribute contains the location of the file relative to the containing Component. The reader-name attribute tells OFBiz when to load the file based on ANT targets.

    <entity-resource type="data" reader-name="seed"
    loader="main" location="data/mainSeedData.xml"/>
    <!-- For data...