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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

Protecting views ("Tarpitting")


"Tarpitting" gets its name from e-mail anti-spamming techniques used to slow down the rate at which repetitive access requests for e-mail services are honored by mail servers. The tarpitting concept may be applied to OFBiz web pages when you need to limit the number of times a request for a web page is honored, and thus slow down the rate at which OFBiz responds to certain HTTP/HTTPS requests.

Getting ready

Make sure the controller.xml file containing your protected view has the following Java class configured in the preprocessor section:

<preprocessor>
<event name="checkProtectedView" type="java"
path="org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ProtectViewWorker"
invoke="checkProtectedView"/>
</preprocessor>

How to do it...

To control the rate at which certain OFBiz web pages are honored, use the security group's protected view option as shown here:

  1. 1. Log in to the Party Manager application.

  2. 2. Select the Security tab to bring up the SecurityGroups List.

  3. 3. Select...