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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

Building a view-entity


OFBiz view-entities are a convenient way of constructing SQL JOIN statements. They do not force the creation of database tables or map to database tables as do entity definitions, but rather they allow OFBiz to create runtime views of related tables so that users may easily access joined tables without creating complicated SQL JOIN statements.

Getting ready

View-entities are defined in entity definition files along with entity definitions. Make sure you have an entity definition file (to use for any view-entities) configured in an existing ofbiz-component.xml.

How to do it...

The process for creating one or more view-entities is similar to that of creating an entity definition, and can be done by following these steps:

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

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

    <view...