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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

Reloading OFBiz seed and demo data


You may rebuild OFBiz and reload all configured databases with distribution data from the original seed and demo data files included in the download at any time. If you have not changed the original data loading configuration, the procedure discussed here will return your OFBiz database to its initial state.

Note

The state of the official OFBiz download site is in a constant state of flux. As of this writing, Release 9.04 downloads acquired from the stable release download link require a build as described here before they will work correctly. This could change at anytime. Be aware of this requirement and act accordingly

Note: "seed" data is considered essential to successful OFBiz operations. "Demo" data is provided by the various applications to demonstrate the workings of application features and functions.

Getting ready

Before following this recipe, ensure these steps are performed:

  1. 1. Navigate to the OFBiz install directory.

  2. 2. If OFBiz is running, shut...