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Apache OFBiz Development: The Beginner's Tutorial

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By Jonathon Wong , Rupert Howell

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Getting Started with OFBiz
- Getting Started with OFBiz
- Getting the OFBiz Code
- Downloading and Installing SVN
- Installing the Java Development Kit (JDK)
- Downloading OFBiz Ready to Launch
- Setting Up an Eclipse Project
- Using Derby—the OFBiz Stock Database
- Running OFBiz
- Switching Off OFBiz
- Our First Tour of OFBiz
- Summary
Working with OFBiz
- Working with OFBiz
- Adding Our First Field
- Resetting Our Play Area Quickly
- The Structure of OFBiz in General
- The Model-View-Controller Architectural Pattern
- Summary
Screen Widgets
- Screen Widgets
- Equipping Our Webapp with a Screen Widget View Handler
- Using the Screen Widget View Handler
- Files and Locations
- Creating Our First Screen Widget
- The Anatomy of the <section> Element
- Nested Sections for Nested Conditions
- Organizing a Large Screen into Smaller Screens
- Screen Widget's Integration with FreeMarker
- Cleaning Up in the "party" Component
- Commenting Changes to the Core Code
- Screen Widgets as Templates
- Summary
Form Widgets
- Form Widgets
- Files and Locations
- Creating Our First Form Widget
- Form Processing via Request Event
- Java Events
- Submitting and Processing Our First Form
- The "list" Type Form Widget
- The "multi" Type Form Widget
- Alternative Targets in Two-Target Forms
- Row-Level Actions
- Summary
Other View Element Types in Screen Widgets
- Other View Element Types in Screen Widgets
- Menu Widgets
- FreeMarker
- Bringing it All Together
- Summary
The Controller
- The Controller
- How OFBiz Hears Our Requests—The Control Servlet
- Programming a Control Servlet
- Summary
Entities, View Entities, and Extended Entities
- Entities, View Entities, and Extended Entities
- Entities
- View Entities
- Extending Entities
- Summary
Accessing the Entities and View Entities
- Accessing the Entities and View Entities
- Setting-Up Our Playground
- GenericValue Objects
- Creating a Database Record
- Updating Database Records
- Deleting Database Records
- Retrieving Database Records
- Using the Entity Engine Cache
- Dynamic View Entities
- Paginating Using the EntityListIterator
- Functions and Dynamic View Entities
- Summary
The Events
- The Events
- Java Events
- Working with the Database
- Summary
The Service Engine
- The Service Engine
- Defining a Service
- Creating the Java Code for the Service
- Testing Our First Service
- Service Parameters
- The DispatchContext
- Service Security and Access Control
- Calling Services from Java Code
- Implementing Interfaces
- Synchronous and Asynchronous Services.
- Using the Job Scheduler
- Quickly Running a Service
- Naming a Service and the Service Reference
- Event Condition Actions (ECA)
- Summary
Permissions and the Service Engine
- Permissions and the Service Engine
- Simple Permissions
- Two-Part Permissions and Special "_ADMIN" Permissions
- Role Checks
- Combining Multiple Checks
- Nested Checks
- Complex Permissions
- Summary
Minilang
- Minilang
- What is Minilang?
- Defining a Simple Service
- Simple Events
- Validating and Converting Fields
- Checking Security in Minilang
- Invoking from Minilang
- Minilang in Screen Widgets
- Summary
Tying Up the Loose Ends
- Tying Up the Loose Ends
- The OFBiz Look and Feel
- Using FreeMarker
- OFBiz Utilities
- Outputting Different Formats
- Summary
Tips and Techniques
- Tips and Techniques
- Debugging Techniques
- Debugging Java Code
- Managing a Project Using Subversion
- Apache HTTP Server and OFBiz using mod_proxy_ajp
- Development Tips
- Summary