Welcome to Apache OFBiz! A powerful top level Apache software project. OFBiz is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System written in Java and houses a large set of libraries, entities, services and features to run all aspects of your business.
For more details about OFBiz please visit the OFBiz Documentation page:
The only requirement to run OFBiz is to have the Java Development Kit (JDK) version 8 installed on your system (not just the JRE, but the full JDK) which you can download from the below link.
Note: if you are using eclipse, make sure of running the appropriate eclipse command
gradlew eclipse. This command will prepare OFBiz for eclipse with the correct classpath and settings.
To quickly install and fire-up OFBiz, please follow the below instructions from the command line at the OFBiz top level directory (folder)
Note: Depending on your Internet connection speed it might take a long time for this step to complete if you are using OFBiz for the first time as it needs to download all dependencies. So please be patient!
MS Windows:
gradlew cleanAll loadDefault
Unix-like OS:
./gradlew cleanAll loadDefault
MS Windows:
gradlew ofbiz
Unix-like OS:
./gradlew ofbiz
You can log in with the user admin and password ofbiz.
Note: the default configuration uses an embedded Java database (Apache Derby) and embedded application server components such as Tomcat, Geronimo (transaction manager), etc.
All build tasks are executed using the Gradle build system which is embedded in OFBiz. To execute build tasks go to OFBiz top-level directory (folder) and execute tasks from there.
The syntax for tasks differ slightly between windows and Unix-like systems
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Windows:
gradlew <tasks-in-here> -
Unix-like:
./gradlew <tasks-in-here>
For the rest of this document, we will use the windows syntax, if you are on
a Unix-like system, you need to add the ./ to gradlew
There are two types of tasks designed for OFBiz in Gradle:
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Standard tasks: To execute general standard Gradle tasks
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OFBiz server tasks: To execute OFBiz startup commands. These tasks start with one of the following words:
- ofbiz : standard server commands
- ofbizDebug : server commands running in remote debug mode
- ofbizSecure : server commands running in secure mode using notsoserial API
- ofbizBackground ; server commands running in a background forked process
- ofbizBackgroundSecure : server commands running in a background forked process in secure mode using the notsoserial API
Tips:
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OFBiz server commands require "quoting" the commands. For example:
gradlew "ofbiz --help" -
Shortcuts to task names can be used by writing the first letter of every word in a task name. However, you cannot use the shortcut form for OFBiz server tasks. Example:
gradlew loadAdminUserLogin -PuserLoginId=myadmin=gradlew lAUL -PuserLoginId=myadmin
gradlew build
gradlew cleanAll loadDefault testIntegration
gradlew "ofbiz --help"
gradlew "ofbizSecure --start --portoffset 10000"
gradlew "ofbizDebug --test"
gradlew "ofbizBackground --start --portoffset 10000"
gradlew "ofbiz --shutdown --portoffset 10000"
gradlew ofbiz (default is --start)
gradlew cleanAll loadDefault "ofbiz --start"
You can use the below common list of tasks as a quick reference
for controlling the system. This document uses the windows task
syntax, if you are on a Unix-like system, you need to add the
./ to gradlew i.e. ./gradlew
List all available commands to control the OFBiz server
gradlew "ofbiz --help"
List all available tasks from the build system
gradlew tasks
List all available projects in the build system
gradlew projects
Show usage and options for the Gradle build system
gradlew --help
gradlew "ofbiz --start"
start is the default server task so this also works:
gradlew ofbiz
gradlew "ofbiz --shutdown"
gradlew "ofbiz --status"
Terminate all running OFBiz server instances by calling the appropriate operating system kill command. Use this command to force OFBiz termination if the --shutdown command does not work. Usually this is needed when in the middle of data loading or testing in OFBiz.
Warning: Be careful in using this command as force termination might lead to inconsistent state / data
gradlew terminateOfbiz
Starts OFBiz in remote debug mode and waits for debugger or IDEs to connect on port 5005
gradlew "ofbizDebug --start"
OR
gradlew ofbizDebug
Starts OFBiz in secure mode using the notsoserial API to prevent Java serialization security issues
gradlew "ofbizSecure --start"
OR
gradlew ofbizSecure
Start OFBiz of the network port offsetted by the range provided in the argument to --portoffset
gradlew "ofbiz --start --portoffset 10000"
Start OFBiz in the background by forking it to a new process and redirecting the output to runtime/logs/console.log
gradlew "ofbizBackground --start"
OR
gradlew ofbizBackground
You can also offset the port, for example:
gradlew "ofbizBackground --start --portoffset 10000"
Start OFBiz in secure mode in the background by forking it to a new process and redirecting the output to runtime/logs/console.log
gradlew "ofbizBackgroundSecure --start"
OR
gradlew ofbizBackgroundSecure
OFBiz contains the following data reader types:
- seed: OFBiz and External Seed Data - to be maintained along with source and updated whenever a system deployment is updated
- seed-initial: OFBiz and External Seed Data - to be maintained along with source like other seed data, but only loaded initially and not updated when a system is updated except manually reviewing each line
- demo: OFBiz Only Demo Data
- ext: External General Data (custom)
- ext-test: External Test Data (custom)
- ext-demo: External Demo Data (custom)
you can choose which data readers to pass in the following syntax:
gradlew "ofbiz --load-data readers=<readers-here-comma-separated>"
Example:
gradlew "ofbiz --load-data readers=seed,seed-initial,ext,ext-demo"
Load default data; meant for generic OFBiz development, testing, demonstration, etc purposes
gradlew loadDefault
OR
gradlew "ofbiz --load-data"
Load ONLY the seed data (not seed-initial, demo, ext* or anything else); meant for use after an update of the code to reload the seed data as it is generally maintained along with the code and needs to be in sync for operation
gradlew "ofbiz --load-data readers=seed"
Load seed, seed-initial and ext data; meant for manual/generic testing, development, or going into production with a derived system based on stock OFBiz where the ext data basically replaces the demo data
gradlew "ofbiz --load-data readers=seed,seed-initial,ext"
Load seed, seed-initial, ext and ext-test data; meant for automated testing with a derived system based on stock OFBiz
gradlew "ofbiz --load-data readers=seed,seed-initial,ext,ext-test"
Load data from an XML file holding entity data.
gradlew "ofbiz --load-data file=foo/bar/FileNameHere.xml"
Create a new tenant in your environment, create the delegator, load initial data with admin-user and password (needs multitenant=Y in general.properties). The following project parameters are passed:
- tenantId: mandatory
- tenantName: mandatory, name of the tenant
- domainName: optional, default is org.apache.ofbiz
- tenantReaders: optional, default value is seed,seed-initial,demo
- dbPlatform: optional, D(Derby), M(MySQL), O(Oracle), P(PostgreSQL) (default D)
- dbIp: optional, ip address of the database
- dbUser: optional, username of the database
- dbPassword: optional, password of the database
gradlew createTenant -PtenantId=mytenant -PtenantName="My Name"
gradlew createTenant -PtenantId=mytenant -PtenantName="My Name" -PdomainName=com.example -PtenantReaders=seed,seed-initial,ext -PdbPlatform=M -PdbIp=127.0.0.1 -PdbUser=mydbuser -PdbPassword=mydbpass
If run successfully, the system creates a new tenant having:
- delegator: default#${tenandId} (e.g. default#mytenant)
- admin user: ${tenantId}-admin (e.g. mytenant-admin)
- admin user password: ofbiz
Load data for one specific tenant in a multitenant environment. Note that you must set multitenant=Y in general.properties and the following project parameters are passed:
- tenantId (mandatory)
- tenantReaders (optional)
- tenantComponent (optional)
gradlew loadTenant -PtenantId=mytenant
gradlew loadTenant -PtenantId=mytenant -PtenantReaders=seed,seed-initial,demo -PtenantComponent=base
gradlew test
gradlew testIntegration
OR
gradlew 'ofbiz --test'
run a test case, in this example the componnet is "entity" and the case name is "entity-tests"
gradlew "ofbiz --test component=entity --test case=entity-tests"
listens on port 5005
gradlew "ofbizDebug --test component=entity --test case=entity-tests"
listens on port 5005
gradlew "ofbiz --test component=widget --test suitename=org.apache.ofbiz.widget.test.WidgetMacroLibraryTests"
listens on port 5005
gradlew "ofbizDebug --test component=widget --test suitename=org.apache.ofbiz.widget.test.WidgetMacroLibraryTests"
This is a very convenient feature of Gradle which allows the user to interact with Gradle through a swing GUI. You can save frequently used commands in a list of favorites for frequent reuse.
gradlew --gui
gradlew cleanAll loadDefault testIntegration
gradlew cleanAll
gradlew clean build
gradlew createComponent -PcomponentName=Custom -PcomponentResourceName=Custom -PwebappName=customweb -PbasePermission=OFBTOOLS,CUSTOM_SECURITY
Create an admin user with login name MyUserName and default password with value "ofbiz". Upon first login OFBiz will request changing the default password
gradlew loadAdminUserLogin -PuserLoginId=MyUserName
Thanks to some gradle magic, setting up OFBiz on eclipse is very easy. All you need is to execute one command and then you can import the project to eclipse. This command will generate the necessary .classpath and .project files for eclipse.
gradlew eclipse
To get tab completion (auto complete gradle commands by pressing tab) you can download the script from the below link and place it in the appropriate location for your system.
For example, on debian based systems, you can use the following command:
sudo curl -L -s https://gist.github.com/nolanlawson/8694399/raw/gradle-tab-completion.bash -o /etc/bash_completion.d/gradle-tab-completion.bash