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This tutorial explains how to use a "rich client" web UI, inside OFBiz, via the ZK Rich framework (http://potix.com).  That is, a ZK frontend but an OFBiz backend.

Warning

From some comments in user ML it seems that this way of doing it is not the best one (if ever it works), please read rather

Prerequisites

  1. A recent OFBiz build which includes https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-528 committed.  This should be any SVN tag from 533448 upwards.
  2. JDK 1.5, with JAVA_HOME environment variable set correctly
  3. Comfortable with configuring a J2EE webapp via web.xml
  4. A webapp (either your own or one of OFBiz's) already working, that you are happy to mess around with as a sandbox
  5. Comfortable with creating your own OFBiz component and using ofbiz-component.xml
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