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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

Sending e-mail from an OFBiz Event or Service


If you ever need to send an e-mail programmatically, OFBiz provides a number of Services that simplify the process. In this section, we look at an example of using the basic OFBiz sendMail Service.

Getting ready

Using the OFBiz WebTools Service Manager utility, we can see at a glance that there are many input and output parameters that the sendMail Service may take. The only required input parameters, however, are:

Parameter name

Notes

body

This is the content of the e-mail (not an attachment).

sendTo

Valid e-mail address. This is the recipient of this e-mail.

subject

E-mail header subject.

How to do it...

The follow example demonstrates calling the sendMail Service from an OFBiz Event. Calling the sendMail Service from another Java program such as a servlet or Service works the same way.

Note

Note: The following program is for demonstration purposes only. It will compile and run within an OFBiz instance. However, much of the logic...