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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 entity model


The Entity Engine supports an unlimited number of entity definitions spread across an unlimited number of data sources. To create a new entity, sometimes called the entity model, is simply to add the entity's definition to an entity definition file.

Getting ready

Make sure you have an entity definition file defined in an existing ofbiz-component.xml file.

How to do it...

To create a new entity, follow these steps:

  1. 1. Open an existing entity definition file or create a new one.

  2. 2. Add one or more entity elements as shown here. Please note: XML declarations shown below are for demonstration purposes only. Statements have been removed to make reading easier:

    <entity entity-name="EntityName"
    package-name="org.ofbiz.somePackageName"
    title="My New Entity">
    <!-- Entity definition XML declaration(s) go here.
    Removed for demonstration purposes -->
    </entity>
    
  3. 3. Each entity element will have one or more of the following declarations added:

    • field element declarations...