Free Trial

Safari Books Online is a digital library providing on-demand subscription access to thousands of learning resources.

Overview

Using Services, Entities, and Widgets to build custom ERP and CRM systems

  • Understand how OFBiz is put together

  • Learn to create and customize business applications with OFBiz

  • Gain valuable development and performance hints

  • A fully illustrated tutorial with functional step-by-step examples

In Detail

Apache OFBiz (Open For Business) is versatile open-source enterprise automation software that powers many small and medium sized businesses around the world. It incorporates a number of mature applications such as ERP, e-Commerce, MRP and CRM.

Built around an MVC framework with common logic, data model and process components, Ofbiz allows existing and bespoke applications to be added through a component-based architecture. Ofbiz includes a mature suite of enterprise applications that integrate and automate a company's many business needs.

This easy-to-read book will quickly enable newcomers to get hands-on with OFBiz. It provides an overview of the main modules and employs illustrated examples that show readers how to build exemplary business applications rapidly. Covering the main aspects of the Model-View-Controller framework, the reader will gain a working knowledge of Widgets, Entities, and The Service Engine. The authors also describe how to tweak OFBiz, and offer valuable performance and development tips. By navigating through the flow of OFBiz and providing insight into the thousands of examples that already exist in the core code they have made this book a must-have for anyone looking to get started with OFBiz.

Subscriber Reviews

Average Rating: 5 out of 5 rating Based on 1 Rating

"amit" - by amit on 04-JUL-2011
Reviewer Rating: 1 star rating2 star rating3 star rating4 star rating5 star rating
Good and easy
Report as Inappropriate

Table of Contents

 Index