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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

Installation verification


To quickly ascertain if OFBiz has installed correctly and is ready for use, you may use your browser to view various OFBiz Application features, including the built-in e-commerce demonstration store.

Getting ready

Once OFBiz is unpacked and, if downloaded from the Subversion repository, built using the ant run-install command, you are ready to start the installation verification by observing the OFBiz e-commerce demonstration store.

How to do it...

To view the e-commerce demonstration store, follow these steps:

  1. 1. Change to the OFBiz install directory.

  2. 2. Start OFBiz using one of the startup scripts provided or directly from the command line.

  3. 3. Open a web browser and enter the URL of the OFBiz e-commerce Application demonstration website: http://localhost:8080/ecommerce

  4. 4. Observe the OFBiz e-commerce demonstration store's main web page. It should look something like the following:

  5. 5. If the web page displays correctly, then you may be confident that at least the OFBiz database and web server software are operating correctly.

How it works...

A quick and easy way to verify that your OFBiz download is working correctly is to start an instance and observe that one of the non-password protected Applications is operational. The OFBiz e-commerce Application, a fully-featured e-commerce website store, is a robust and demanding OFBiz Application. Running the e-commerce Application demonstrates and exercises many core OFBiz features including, but not limited to, successful operations of the following:

  • OFBiz Entity engine

  • OFBiz Service engine

  • Integrated web server (Apache Tomcat)

  • Integrated Java servlet container (Apache Catalina/Tomcat)

  • Network connectivity

  • Web browser UI compliance

There's more...

If the main e-commerce web page is displayed and looks similar to that shown above then you may be confident that at least part of OFBiz is working correctly. This, however, should be considered simply the starting point.