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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

Introduction


Secure and reliable data storage is the key business driver behind any data management strategy. That OFBiz takes data management seriously and does not leave all the tedious and error-prone data management tasks to the application developer or the integrator is evident from the visionary design and implementation of the Entity Engine.

The Entity Engine is a database agnostic application development and deployment framework seamlessly integrated into the OFBiz project code. It handles all the day-to-day data management tasks necessary to securely and reliably operate an enterprise. These tasks include, but are not limited to support for:

  • Simultaneously connecting to an unlimited number of databases

  • Managing an unlimited number of database connection pools

  • Overseeing database transactions

  • Handling database error conditions

The true power of the Entity Engine is that it provides OFBiz Applications with all the tools, utilities, and an Application Programming Interface (API) necessary...