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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

Creating a new OFBiz Component or Application


Recent developments within the OFBiz community have resulted in the download distribution containing an ANT script to quickly and easily build new OFBiz Components and Applications.

Getting ready

Ensure the following prerequisites:

  1. 1. Decide on a name for the new Component. For example, if you want to call your new Component "myComponent" then the name will be myComponent.

  2. 2. Determine if the Component will have an OFBiz Application (sometimes referred to as a "webapp") associated with it. Do you want to be able to log in to this Component? If so, then you will need to have at least one OFBiz Application associated with this Component.

  3. 3. If the Component is to have an OFBiz Application (a "webapp"), determine a name for this Application. For example, if you wish to call the webapp "myWebApp" then the Application's name is myWebApp.

  4. 4. Navigate to the OFBiz install directory.

  5. 5. If OFBiz is already running, shut it down.

How to do it...

To create a new...