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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

Defining Service attributes (INPUT/OUTPUT)


Service input and output parameters are defined within the Service's definition using XML declaration statements with an element tag of attribute. Each XML attribute element declaration represents either an input parameter (INPUT), an output parameter (OUTPUT), or a parameter that is passed as both input and output (INOUT). The participation of each parameter as an input or output value may be made optional by adding an optional attribute to the declaration. By default, the optional value is false, and all parameters that are defined are required to be passed. This means that the Service will fail if one or more of the configured (non-optional) parameters are not passed.

Note

Note: If an INPUT parameter is not defined for a Service, then that value will not be passed into the Service's execution context regardless of the values that are sent by the calling program. Similarly, if an OUT or INOUT parameter is not defined for a value, then that value...