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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

OFBiz single sign-on and the external login key


If an OFBiz user (whose session has not expired) stays within the processing domain of a single OFBiz webapp, they will not need to log in more than once. But, because of the nature of TCP/IP sessions and servlet container behavior, users moving between OFBiz webapps may be prompted to log in once for each OFBiz webapp they wish to access. Since any single OFBiz instance may support an unlimited number of webapps, certain users such as administrators may need to log in many times in the course of performing a single administrative task.

To help mitigate this situation, OFBiz provides a handy mechanism called the "External Login Key". This feature enables logged in users to move between OFBiz web applications requiring authentication without having to log in more than one time.

Note

Note: because the external login key implementation depends on the user's session, there may be times when the external login key appears not to work. This may happen...