and then for the particular dataBase look in the /framework/entity/fieldtype directory.
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:19 +0700, Hans Bakker wrote: > 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.....
