OpenForBusinessinaNutshell

OpenSourceFoundationsforEnterpriseApplications

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WhatisOFBiz?

OpenSourceProjectforEnterprise Applications(ERP/CRM/MRP)

ApplicationsDevelopmentFramework DataModel
Applications

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MoreaboutOFBiz

www.ofbiz.org Beganin2001 InternationalDeveloperCommunity

C

EnterpriseClassFeatures

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PresentationOutline
IsOFBizforme?

Applications&Capabilities UnderlyingTechnologies DevelopingandDeployingOFBiz

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OFBizApplications

Accounting

Inventory& Warehouse

Customer Service

Product Catalogs

eCommerce

Content Mgmt

Manufacturing

Marketing

OrderEntry

PointOf Sales

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ProductsandStores
POS ProductStore Website

Catalogs

Categories Products ProductFeatures ProductVariants

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eCommerceHighlights

Multiplestores Customcatalogsandpricing PriceandPromotionRules Associations:upsell/crosssell/substitution Sitesearchandproductreviews

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OrderManager

Createandmanageorders Quotes:createquotes,getbids,convertto orders Returns:create,approve,receivereturns Purchasing:multivendor,multicurrency

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InventoryandWarehouse

Multiplefacilities

Receiveinventory Tracklocations Serializedvs.nonserializedinventory

Shipments

Createshipments Pick&Pack CarrierIntegration

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PointOfSales(POS)

BasedonJavaPOS IndependentPOSstation Webenabledsynchronizationwithstoreand corporateservers

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OtherApplications
Blogs,wikis,surveysinContent Billingaccounts,paymentgatewaysinAccounting MaterialresourceplanninginManufacturing Affiliate,PPCcampaignsinMarketing PeopleandSecurityinPartyManager
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TheOFBizFramework
Presentation ModelViewController Decoratorpattern Templatesvsactions Metaprogramming Tomcat,Jetty Freemarker,FOP JasperReports JavaPOS,XUI beanshell Framework BusinessLogic ServiceOrientedArchitecture WebServices(SOAP/XML) Scriptinglanguages Metaprogramming Axis BSF beanshell Data XMLDataModeling Persistence DatabaseIndependence Metaprogramming JOTM XAPool Minerva Derby JDBC

Xerces Lucene Log4j

JakartaCommons Xalan ORO

Javolution POI

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FrameworkHighlights
PlatformandDBIndependent HighlyVersatileDevelopmentStyle PlugInArchitecture:addnewappseasily MutuallyAwareTiers

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IntheBeginning...
OFBiz(~2002)
JSP Decorator Pattern Events Servlet Helper Class
Delegator/ Entity Engine

Controller

DB

FollowedCoreJ2EEPatternsbook LotsofrepetitivecodeinEventsandHelpers

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OFBizArchitectureToday
OFBizToday(2005)
JSP Decorator Screen Pattern Widgets
Entity Engine

Controller

Service Engine

Services

EntityEngine

EntityEngine

MuchbettercodereusewithService OrientedArchitecture

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ArchitecturalComparison:PHP/Perl

$x = $_POST[X];

SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ...;

person[firstName] = ...;

User
UPDATE ... SET ... WHERE ....;

Database

echo <TABLE><TR><TD>...;

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ArchitecturalComparison:Java

ServletClass

BusinessTier Objects

Persistence Class

User

Database

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ArchitecturalComparison:OFBiz

Screens
genericscreens genericforms

Services
genericbusinesslogic defineinXML Java,scriptinglanguages SOAP,RMI DispatcherAPI

User

HTML,XSL:FO,XUI controller

Entities
datamodeldefinedinXML GenericDelegatorAPI GenericValueAPI DatabaseIndependent

Workflow
SECA XPDL

Database
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JavaPersistenceFrameworks

Modeldataasclasseswithfieldsandaccessors MapfieldsfromJavatoSQL AutogenerateJavaandSQLcode

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OFBizPersistenceFramework
Entity:smallunitofdatamodel

Key/valuepairs Relatedtootherentities DeclaredinXMLfile Foundbydelegator Genericclasswithget,set,storemethods

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UsingtheEntityEngine

ModelingtheData:

Entitymodel.xml,entitygroup.xml

InterfacingtheDatabase:

Entityengine.xml,fieldtype.xml,cacheproperties

AccessingtheData:

GenericDelegator GenericEntity/GenericValue

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BusinessLogic:TheServiceEngine

Service:smallunitofbusinesslogic Centralclearinghouseofbusinesslogic.APIlayer
Controller Services Workflow Java Scripts(Jython,BSH,JRuby,simpleXML) SOAP RMI Workflow

Service Engine

EntityEngine
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ServiceEngineHighlights

Definedinservices.xml AccessedviaGenericDispatcher Mapin,Mapout Builtintransactions ExceptionhandlingusingMapfields

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ServicesMaximizeCodeReuse

LinkedtogetherinSECAorXPDLworkflow Directlyplugsintocontroller:noparsingneeded Automatedformgeneration

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PresentationLayer

View
JSP Freemarker/ Beanshell/ JPublish Screen/Form/ Menu/Widgets

Controller
Handlers Requests Views

Model
Events& Helpers Services Servlets

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DevelopingwithOFBiz
DataModel BusinessLogic Entities Services SECAs Workflow FTL FormWidget ScreenWidget Controller

UserInterface

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DevelopingEfficientlywithOFBiz

Useexistingdatamodel,businesslogic Useservices Prototypewithbeanshell

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DeploymentPossibilities
SingleInstance
Tomcat Jetty Apache

OFBiz DB OS
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DeploymentPossibilities
Failover

synch

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DeploymentPossibilities
LoadBalancing
Apache Apache

OFBiz

DB
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DB

DeploymentPossibilities
MultiStore

POS

POS

web

POS

corporate

web

Builtinsynchallowsscalingoutorup

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WhyWeChoseOFBiz

Flexible Scalable Strongdevelopmentmodel Growingcommunity

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NextStep

Tryitout Developers'InstallFests Readthetutorials

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OFBizSoCal

ServiceProviders Developers

Users

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 BringingOpenSourcetotheEnterprise

Logospropertiesoftheirrespectiveowners freeimages.co.uk

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