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Another benefit of this open source model is that we receive constant feedback from those who are using the software. We have received countless bug fixes, improvement suggestions, and best-practice business advice from users and potential users of OFBiz. Many of the greatest features in the project were inspired by some comment comments or suggestion suggestions sent to the mailing lists associated with the project. With dozens of organizations using the software and probably hundreds of deployed sites using one piece or another of the project we generally get 20-30 emails each day about the project.
To make sure our functionality is timely and useful we always start by researching public standards and common usage for any component we are working on. This helps us support and use common vocabularies and gives us an instant breadth of options and features that can only be achieved through standards processes and other group efforts. It also opens doors in the future for flexible communication with other systems that are built around the same standards, both inside your organization and in the partner or other organizations.
The applications and application components that come with the system provide you with a broad and flexible basis that can be used as-is with the best-practices based designs or customized to your own special needs. The applications facilitate the management of everything from parties and products to accounting, customer service, and internal resource and asset management.
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- framework components: These are lower level components that provides the technical layer and tools to the application components; the features provided by these components are typically the ones provided by any other development framework (data layer, business logic layer, transaction handling, data source pools, etc…)
- application components: These are generic business components required for ERP applications that can be extended/customized (product, order, party, manufacturing, accounting etc…); application components have access to the services and tools provided by the framework components and to the services published by other application componentcomponents.
- plugins components: These components are similar as applications to application components but meant for special purpose applications like ecommerce, google base integration, eBay integration etc.
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It's very easy to setup a new custom component in OFBiz in plugins directory. Using the command line you just need run the following command.
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$ ./gradlew createPlugin -PpluginId=ofbizDemo |
Running your first application
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Services using other engines
Whenever you have to build a business logic you should prefer to write services to leverage features from its built in Service Engine.
The service "createOfbizDemo" that you created earlier was using engine="entity-auto" and hence you didn't need to provide its implementation and OFBiz took care of create operation. When you need to work on complex operations in service involving multiple entities from database and custom logics to be built, you need to provide custom implementation to your service. In this section we will focus on this.
Service in Java
You can implement a service in Java as directed here in below given steps:
1.) Define your service, here again we will be operating on the same entity(OfbizDemo) of our custom Ofbiz Demo application. Open your service definition file $OFBIZ_HOME/plugins/ofbizDemo/servicedef/services.xml and add a new definition as:
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<service name="createOfbizDemoByJavaService" default-entity-name="OfbizDemo" engine="java" location="com.companyname.ofbizdemo.services.OfbizDemoServices" invoke="createOfbizDemo" auth="true"> <description>Create an Ofbiz Demo record using a service in Java</description> <auto-attributes include="pk" mode="OUT" optional="false"/> <auto-attributes include="nonpk" mode="IN" optional="false"/> <override name="comments" optional="true"/> </service> |
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2.) Create package "com.companyname.ofbizdemo.services" in your ofbizDemo components src/main/java directory (create those if they don't exist in your src directory).
Example: src/main/java/com/companyname/ofbizdemo/services. Services for your application which have to be implemented in Java can be placed in this java directory.
3.) Define new Java Class in file OfbizDemoServices.java here in services directory and implement method, which is going to be invoked by your service definition, as shown below:
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package com.companyname.ofbizdemo.services; import java.util.Map; import org.apache.ofbiz.base.util.Debug; import org.apache.ofbiz.entity.Delegator; import org.apache.ofbiz.entity.GenericEntityException; import org.apache.ofbiz.entity.GenericValue; import org.apache.ofbiz.service.DispatchContext; import org.apache.ofbiz.service.ServiceUtil; public class OfbizDemoServices { public static final String module = OfbizDemoServices.class.getName(); public static Map<String, Object> createOfbizDemo(DispatchContext dctx, Map<String, ? extends Object> context) { Map<String, Object> result = ServiceUtil.returnSuccess(); Delegator delegator = dctx.getDelegator(); try { GenericValue ofbizDemo = delegator.makeValue("OfbizDemo"); // Auto generating next sequence of ofbizDemoId primary key ofbizDemo.setNextSeqId(); // Setting up all non primary key field values from context map ofbizDemo.setNonPKFields(context); // Creating record in database for OfbizDemo entity for prepared value ofbizDemo = delegator.create(ofbizDemo); result.put("ofbizDemoId", ofbizDemo.getString("ofbizDemoId")); Debug.log("==========This is my first Java Service implementation in Apache OFBiz. OfbizDemo record created successfully with ofbizDemoId:"+ofbizDemo.getString("ofbizDemoId")); } catch (GenericEntityException e) { Debug.logError(e, module); return ServiceUtil.returnError("Error in creating record in OfbizDemo entity ........" +module); } return result; } } |
4.) Stop server and re-start using "./gradlew ofbiz", it will compile your class and will make it available when ofbiz restarts which updated jar file.
5.) Test service implemented using webtools --> Run Service option(https://localhost:8443/webtools/control/runService) or simply update the service name being called by your controller request to use this service instead and use add form in your app that you prepared earlier. By doing this your Add OfbizDemo form will call this java service.
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<request-map uri="createOfbizDemo"> <security https="true" auth="true"/> <event type="service" invoke="createOfbizDemoByJavaService"/> <response name="success" type="view" value="main"/> </request-map> |
To make sure this new service implementation is being executed, you can check this line in console log that you have put in your code using Debug.log(....). For logging in OFBiz you must always use Debug class methods in Java classes.
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[java] 2014-06-24 12:11:37,282 (http-bio-0.0.0.0-8443-exec-2) [ OfbizDemoServices.java:28 :INFO] ==========This is my first Java Service implementation in Apache OFBiz. OfbizDemo record created successfully with ofbizDemoId: ...... |
Service in Groovy
To utilize feature of on the fly compilation and less line of code you can implement services for building business logics in OFBiz using Groovy DSL.
To implement a service using Groovy you can follow below given steps:
1.) Add new service definition to services/services.xml file as:
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<service name="createOfbizDemoByGroovyService" default-entity-name="OfbizDemo" engine="groovy" location="component://ofbizDemo/script/comgroovyScripts/companyname/ofbizdemo/OfbizDemoServices.groovy" invoke="createOfbizDemo" auth="true"> <description>Create an Ofbiz Demo record using a service in Groovy</description> <auto-attributes include="pk" mode="OUT" optional="false"/> <auto-attributes include="nonpk" mode="IN" optional="false"/> <override name="comments" optional="true"/> </service> |
2.) Add new groovy services file here component://ofbizDemo/script/comgroovyScripts/companyname/ofbizdemo/OfbizDemoServices.groovy
3.) Add service implementation to the file OfbizDemoServices.groovy
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import org.apache.ofbiz.entity.GenericEntityException; def createOfbizDemo() { result = [:]; try { ofbizDemo = delegator.makeValue("OfbizDemo"); // Auto generating next sequence of ofbizDemoId primary key ofbizDemo.setNextSeqId(); // Setting up all non primary key field values from context map ofbizDemo.setNonPKFields(context); // Creating record in database for OfbizDemo entity for prepared value ofbizDemo = delegator.create(ofbizDemo); result.ofbizDemoId = ofbizDemo.ofbizDemoId; logInfo("==========This is my first Groovy Service implementation in Apache OFBiz. OfbizDemo record " +"created successfully with ofbizDemoId: "+ofbizDemo.getString("ofbizDemoId")); } catch (GenericEntityException e) { logError(e.getMessage()); return error("Error in creating record in OfbizDemo entity ........"); } return result; } |
4.) Stop server and re-start using"./gradlew ofbiz", this time we just need to load the new service definition, no explicit compilation is required as its a service implementation in Groovy.
5.) Test service implemented using webtools --> Run Service option(https://localhost:8443/webtools/control/runService) or simply update the service name being called by your controller request to use this service instead and use add form in your app that you prepared earlier for testing. By doing this your Add OfbizDemo form will call this groovy service.
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<request-map uri="createOfbizDemo"> <security https="true" auth="true"/> <event type="service" invoke="createOfbizDemoByGroovyService"/> <response name="success" type="view" value="main"/> </request-map> |
To make sure this new service implementation is being executed, you can check this line in console log that you have put in your code using Debug.log(....). For logging in OFBiz you must always use Debug class methods in Java classes.
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[java] 2014-06-24 12:11:37,282 (http-bio-0.0.0.0-8443-exec-2) [ OfbizDemoServices.java:28 :INFO] ==========This is my first Groovy Service implementation in Apache OFBiz. OfbizDemo record created successfully with ofbizDemoId: ..... |
To get more details around using Groovy DSL for service and events implementation in Apache OFBiz you can refer document created by Jacopo Cappellato in OFBiz Wiki here.
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2.) Add new Groovy file for data fetching logic at location $ OFBIZ_HOME/plugins/ofbizDemo/webapp/ofbizDemo/WEB-INF/actions/groovyScripts/crud/ListOfbizDemo.groovy and add code as shown to list out OfbizDemo records:
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<screen name="AddOfbizDemoFtl"> <section> <actions> <set field="titleProperty" value="PageTitleAddOfbizDemos"/> <set field="headerItem" value="addOfbizDemoFtl"/> <script location="component://ofbizDemo/webapp/ofbizDemo/WEB-INF/actionsgroovyScripts/crud/ListOfbizDemo.groovy"/> </actions> <widgets> <decorator-screen name="main-decorator" location="${parameters.mainDecoratorLocation}"> <decorator-section name="body"> <screenlet title="${uiLabelMap.OfbizDemoListOfbizDemos}"> <platform-specific> <html><html-template location="component://ofbizDemo/webapp/ofbizDemo/crud/ListOfbizDemo.ftl"/></html> </platform-specific> </screenlet> <screenlet title="${uiLabelMap.OfbizDemoAddOfbizDemoServiceByFtl}"> <platform-specific> <html><html-template location="component://ofbizDemo/webapp/ofbizDemo/crud/AddOfbizDemo.ftl"/></html> </platform-specific> </screenlet> </decorator-section> </decorator-screen> </widgets> </section> </screen> |
4.) Add new controller request and a new item for OfbizDemo menu as:
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< screen name = "AddOfbizDemoFtl" > < section > < actions > < set field = "titleProperty" value = "OfbizDemoAddOfbizDemoFtl" /> < set field = "headerItem" value = "addOfbizDemoFtl" /> < script location = "component://ofbizDemo/webapp/ofbizDemo/WEB-INF/actionsgroovyScripts/crud/ListOfbizDemo.groovy" /> </ actions > < widgets > < decorator-screen name = "OfbizDemoCommonDecorator" location = "${parameters.mainDecoratorLocation}" > < decorator-section name = "body" > < label style = "h4" text = "${uiLabelMap.OfbizDemoListOfbizDemos}" /> < platform-specific > < html >< html-template location = "component://ofbizDemo/webapp/ofbizDemo/crud/ListOfbizDemo.ftl" /></ html > </ platform-specific > < label style = "h4" text = "${uiLabelMap.OfbizDemoAddOfbizDemoFtl}" /> < platform-specific > < html >< html-template location = "component://ofbizDemo/webapp/ofbizDemo/crud/AddOfbizDemo.ftl" /></ html > </ platform-specific > </ decorator-section > </ decorator-screen > </ widgets > </ section > </ screen > |
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