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This glossary is intended to help beginners with OFBiz terms and concepts. Most of them come from the Data Model Resource Book some are OFBiz specific.
There is a such (NOTE:Not sure that the Data Model Resource is good as a reference for end users... More technical people or functional yes - but general end users probably not....)
You can also find a glossary which defines the terms used by the Apache Software FundationFoundation
Concept or Term | Definition | Example |
|---|---|---|
Party |
User, person, organisation or other entity (where entity is not an OFBiz "Entity" but rather entity in the legal sense) implied in at least one process modelled and implemented by OFBiz.
eg : administrator of the website; a company dealing goods and/or services via the website; an OFBiz customer assigned a unique party identifier, etc.
ERP
An acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning, an ERP is basically a category of software used for managing a business. It is often a package containing several individual, but integrated, applications. Some of those applications might be Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, or Point of Sale.
Apache OFBiz, OpenBravo, Odoo
CRM
E-Business
E-Commerce
The buying and selling of goods or services over electronic systems.
MRP
SCM
CMMS/EAM
Vendor
Role of a party that sells something with the system
Supplier
Role of a party that something if purchased from
Component
An OFBiz component is a directory used by the OFBiz framework to specify and load application server resources necessary to execute an OFBiz instance. Each OFBiz component must have a unique name (typically the name of the root directory for the component) and a configuration file called: "ofbiz-component.xml". Component resources may include, but are not limited to: webapps, Java source/classes, classpath resources, scripts, entity definitions, entity data files, service definitions, service and entity ECA rules, test suites, and encryption keystores. A component contains applications and/or the lower level tools and definitions needed by applications. A component can be used for self-contained extensions, including applications and logic/data modifications, to the suite of tools and applications that come with OFBiz.
Application
A part of Component (at the user level) beginning with the ~webapp directory. A single component may contain several applications each mounted on a unique URL. Within each component, the "ofbiz-component.xml" file defines the available applications and how those applications shall be mounted on URLs.
Examples: OOTB the Accounting component has three applications: Accounting, AP and AR.