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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

About the Author

Ruth Hoffman is an OFBiz evangelist with over 25 years of information technology experience, including stints in software design and development, training, project management, product marketing, and software sales, She has dedicated the last few years of her eventful career to furthering the OFBiz vision. Whether it be writing about OFBiz, providing implementation and OFBiz consulting services, or just "kicking the OFBiz tires" for each new release, she enjoys working with and telling the world about all that this amazing ERP software suite has to offer.

Ruth's current passion is her quest to provide high quality, cost effective OFBiz training and documentation. She has pursued this quest through multiple channels, including the OFBiz website. She invites everyone to stop by, take a gander, and give some feedback at http://www.myofbiz.com

As a long-standing supporter of OFBiz, she has authored several other OFBiz titles, including OFBiz E-Commerce Out-Of-The-Box and The OFBiz Catalog Manager. For more information, please see: http://www.myofbiz.com.