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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 a new Service definition


OFBiz is made aware of a Service by the presence of a Service definition within a Service definition file. Each OFBiz Service has a Service definition that configures the Service with a name, location information, Service implementation engine type, and other optional parameters.

How to do it...

To create a new Service definition, follow these steps:

  1. 1. Find an existing Service definition file or create a new one.

  2. 2. Add one or more service element XML declarations. For example:

    <service name="someName" engine="one_of_the_available_engines"
    location="component_or_CLASSPATH_location"
    <!-- Add any INPUT/OUTPUT attribute elements here -->
    <!-- Add a PERMISSION-SERVICE element -->
    <!-- For Simple Services, add any AUTO-ATTRIBUTE elements -->
    </service>
    
  3. 3. Make sure the new Service definition element has a closing</services> tag.

  4. 4. Save and close the file.

  5. 5. Restart OFBiz.

How it works...

Using Service definitions, OFBiz removes Service...