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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

Changing debug settings


OFBiz system event logging and debug tools are an integral part of the OFBiz experience. Whether you are monitoring a deployed system or developing a new OFBiz Component or webapp, OFBiz wide runtime event logging and debugging support is your best troubleshooting tool. Out-of-the-box, event logging is based on the Apache log4J logging tool (http://logging.apache.org/log4j) and may be enabled or disabled using the WebTools interface without restarting OFBiz. If enabled, log4j logging levels (the triggers that tell log4j when to write an Event message to the log file) may also be adjusted during normal system operations.

Getting ready

To get started and manage OFBiz logging features, either navigate to the WebTools main web page and select the Logging navigation tab, or go directly to the tool's URL located at: https://localhost:8443/webtools/control/LogConfiguration. If you have not already logged in, you will be prompted to log in. Enter the administrator's username...