Apache OfBiz Cookbook

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.

Type
ebook
Category
publication date
2010-09-07
what you will learn

Learn OFBiz artifact organization and effective (OFBiz) project navigation skills

Configure OFBiz web applications and framework settings using various WebTools

Access and manage one or more database(s) using the OFBiz Entity engine

Create Java programs that call other OFBiz Services and utilities

Use Groovy to prepare data for web page presentation

Enhance existing OFBiz applications or create new ones, by implementing OFBiz Screen, Form, Tree, and Menu Widgets

Create and deploy OFBiz Events and Services

Make administrative changes easily from the command-line

Add web service client(s) and service provider features to your OFBiz instance

Minimize frustration and wasted time with straightforward recipes designed to get you up and running quickly

no of pages
300
duration
600
key features
Optimize your OFBiz experience and save hours of frustration with this timesaving collection of practical recipes covering a wide range of OFBiz topics. * * Get answers to the most commonly asked OFBiz questions in an easy-to-digest reference style of presentation. * * Discover insights into OFBiz design, implementation, and best practices by exploring real-life solutions. * * Each recipe in this Cookbook is crafted to describe not only "how" to accomplish a specific task, but also "why" the technique works to ensure you get the most out of your OFBiz implementation.
approach
The best way to experience OFBiz is to dive right in and start "kicking the tires". No matter if you are an end user exploring the out-of-the-box e-commerce web store or a software developer getting ready to build a new application, you will find, eventually, that you perform the same tasks over and over again.

This book is designed as a reference to guide you though those oft-encountered OFBiz tasks. It is a collection of recipes, not necessarily in any particular order of importance, that address and give answers to many of the real-world questions asked about how to do things with OFBiz.
audience
If you are an OFBiz user who has some familiarity with enterprise software systems, and perhaps more importantly, Internet and Web exposure, you will be able to glean useful information from this book. You will need only basic knowledge of modern browser behavior (for example: how to click a mouse button) to follow some recipes, while others assume a passing familiarity with a text-editor and XML documents. If you are a software developer looking for Java and/or Groovy examples, this book also includes a chapter on Java software development.
meta description
Over 60 simple but incredibly effective recipes for taking control of OFBiz
subtitle
Over 60 simple but incredibly effective recipes for taking control of OFBiz
keywords
OFBiz, Apache OFBiz, Apache Open for Business, Open Source ERP, Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), OFBiz Entity Engine, OFBiz Service Engine, OFBiz E-commerce, OFBiz Manufacturing, Open Source MRP, OFBiz Widget Framework, OFBiz WebTools, OFBi
Product ISBN
9781847199188