I believe that one interesting point for beginners interested in architecture of OFBiz is also :
http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/VideosFrameworkIntro.html You may find this link on 1st page of http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/ from where a lot may insterest you... Jacques ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashish Vijaywargiya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 5:48 PM Subject: Re: Addition of new application and customizing existing application > Hello Ajay, > > > 1.How to add new application into the > > ofbiz.? > The best place to add new application in the ofbiz is > hot-deploy directory.You can maintain your own > customized application over there. > > >> 2.How to customize existing application in > >> ofbiz. > The best way to customize existing application is > first you get familier with ofbiz and then you can > customize it as per as your requirements. > > The best place to start is the tutorial shared by Si > Chen (One of the main committer of Ofbiz project) : > http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/tutorials.php > Please spend some time in learning the included > technologies in ofbiz from the Si's tutorial. > > 3.Ofbiz has introduce many things like > > widgets,screens etc. and it > > uses FTL and beanshell also. > > Can it be possible to add new J2EE > > application into the > > ofbiz. This new application will be based on > > servlet,jsps and database > > connectivity(Implementing MVC pattern). > > Ajay,Ofbiz has changed a lot to provide the best > technologies to develop the more stable,robust and > secure solutions and eassy to maintain since it > started.Each technologies are introduced after the > long and pretty good discussion on the mailing list.So > offcourse those technologies are very good to go ahead > for stable solution.Initially ofbiz Uses the > Jsp,JPublish but due to some issues it is shifted to > ftl & widgets.Although you can also use the old > concept to use JSP instead ftl if you like. > > See for the database connectivity the Entity > Engine that is written by David E. Jones and Andy is > superb tool to work with.So I will highly recommend to > use Entity Engine instead of other solutions for > database connectivity. > > > My current requirement is, I need to use the > > existing applications that ofbz provide, but I need > >to customize them as per the requirement.And > > also I need to add new application to the ofbiz > > The best way to go ahead with this is try the Opentaps > online demo first and spent some time in learning how > the CRMSFA and Financial component(Developed by Si > Chen's Team at opensourcestrategies) work together > with ofbiz. > http://www.opentaps.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=21&Itemid=50 > > You can also download and try this two > component(CRMSFA & Financials) into the hot-deploy > directory of the ofbiz.See the links below for further > details : > > http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/accounting.php > Source code access of Financials component: > (svn co > svn://svn.opentaps.org/financials/versions/0.9/trunk/ > financials) > > http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/open_source_crm.php > Source code access of CRMSFA component: > (svn co > svn://svn.opentaps.org/crmsfa/versions/1.0/trunk/ > crmsfa) > > And the most important is to learn by doing and > reviewing the code contributed and shared in Ofbiz > project.There are soo many links(like old wiki,new > wiki,documents) on the ofbiz home site to learn more > about it. > > I hope the above details will help you upto some > extend to go ahead with your development. > > Regards > Ashish Vijaywargiya > > > --- Ajay Dalvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > I am new to ofbiz. For last couple of weeks > > I am going through the > > docs and any materials that are available to get > > familiear with ofbiz. > > But I was not able to find out the answer to > > the following > > questions: > > 1.How to add new application into the > > ofbiz.? > > I didn't get any article or help > > document to do this. > > 2.How to customize existing application in > > ofbiz. > > I didn't get anything for this. Is > > there any proper steps > > tobe followed while customizing existing > > applicaation. > > 3.Ofbiz has introduce many things like > > widgets,screens etc. and it > > uses FTL and beanshell also. > > Can it be possible to add new J2EE > > application into the > > ofbiz. This new application will be based on > > servlet,jsps and database > > connectivity(Implementing MVC pattern). > > > > My current requirement is, I need to use the > > existing applications > > that ofbz provide, but I need to customize them as > > per the requirement.And > > also I need to add new application > > to the ofbiz. So that I can be able to > > manage/access the data from > > both side i.e.e from current existing ofbiz > > applications as wel as the newly > > added application. > > > > > > Can anyone please suggest me the the ways/solutions > > to above problems. > > > > Regards, > > -Ajay > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Want to start your own business? > Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index
