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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

Chapter 8. Web Services

In this chapter, we shall look at various techniques to build OFBiz web service providers and consumers. In particular, you will find information on:

  • Requesting web services using URL parameters

  • Requesting web services using an HttpClient

  • Creating HttpClient and passing XML documents

  • Creating XML-RPC web service clients

  • Becoming an XML-RPC web service provider

  • Generating a WSDL document

  • Building SOAP messaging clients

  • Creating SOAP compliant web services

Introduction

Ask five people what "web services" are and you will likely get at least six different opinions. Because the term evokes such ambiguity, we need to set ground rules for this chapter and define what we mean by "web services". Therefore, for the purposes of this book, "web services" are the interactive exchange of messages from one system to another using the Internet as the network transport and HTTP/HTTPS as the messaging protocol. Message exchange transpires without human intervention and may be one-way—that...