Hi Peter, for your first point, please have a look at the shoppingCart within OFBiz which is an example how to create an order but only save at the end of the creation process. Your second point, as an application programmer in OFBiz you do not care about what database or the data organization within the database. The webtools option allows you to have a look at the entities and their fields and you can look into any table/entity.... If you still want to know...have e a look in the /framework/entity/config/entityengine.xml file....
Regards, Hans On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 17:14 -0800, Peter Felts wrote: > I'm learning OfBiz and I'm at the point where I've gone through the basic > tutorials provided by opensourcestrategies.com, but now I've got some > conceptual questions that I'm hoping the ofBiz community could help me with. > Any insight into these topics would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. > > 1) I am used to programming web interfaces in PHP. In a typical PHP > application I would store transaction data in an object or array. Lets say > that we've got an order object which is not to be placed in the database > until the order has been placed. In PHP I would serialize a the object as a > session variable, load it at the beginning of each script, then reserialize > it before posting to another page. My first conceptual OfBiz question is > this: what is the standard method of storing temporary data such as this? Do > I store everything in a DB during simple UI transactions? > > 2) Where can I learn about the entity data types and how they map to data > types in the particular database system I'm using? > > Thanks everyone. > > > -- AntWebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates.....
