[OFBiz] SVN: r7743 - trunk/website/training
jonesde@svn.ofbiz.org
jonesde at svn.ofbiz.org
Mon Jun 5 01:25:12 CDT 2006
Author: jonesde
Date: 2006-06-05 01:25:08 -0500 (Mon, 05 Jun 2006)
New Revision: 7743
Modified:
trunk/website/training/AdvancedFramework.html
trunk/website/training/BasicFrameworkToolsOverview.html
Log:
Updated framework training outlines; major reformatting; updated and added sections about the screen and other widgets; removed rule engine stuff
Modified: trunk/website/training/AdvancedFramework.html
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--- trunk/website/training/AdvancedFramework.html 2006-06-05 05:18:28 UTC (rev 7742)
+++ trunk/website/training/AdvancedFramework.html 2006-06-05 06:25:08 UTC (rev 7743)
@@ -1,436 +1,476 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-<html>
-<head>
- <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE"
- content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
- <title>Advanced Framework Training Outline</title>
- <style>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"/>
+ <title>Advanced Framework Training Outline</title>
+ <style type="">
DIV,LI {
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
- </style>
-</head>
-<body lang="en-US">
-<center>
-<h2>Advanced Framework Training Outline</h2>
-</center>
-<div>Written By: David E. Jones</div>
-<div>Email: <a href="mailto:jonesde at ofbiz.org">jonesde at ofbiz.org</a></div>
-<div>Open For Business Site: <a href="http://www.ofbiz.org/">http://www.ofbiz.org</a></div>
-<div>Founders and Lead Architects: David E. Jones & Andy Zeneski<br>
-</div>
-<div>Last Updated: 31 July 2004<br>
-</div>
-<hr>
-<br>
-Target Audience
-<ol>
- <li>Senior Developers </li>
- <li>Senior Architects<br>
- </li>
-</ol>
-Topics Covered<br>
-<br>
-<div>Part 1: The Webapp Framework, Widgets & MiniLang</div>
-<ol>
- <li> Basic Framework Review </li>
- <li> The Webapp Framework</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Control Servlet</li>
- <ol>
- <li> ofbiz/framework/webapp/dtd/site-conf.dtd </li>
- <li> <webapp>/WEB-INF/controller.xml </li>
- <li> Requests </li>
- <li> Events</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Event Context (parameters and return values) </li>
- <li> Event Handlers/Types </li>
- <li> simple-method Events </li>
- <li> Java Events </li>
- <li> Designing a new Event Handler </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Responses </li>
- <li> Views</li>
- <ol>
- <li> View Handlers/Types </li>
- <li> Designing a new View Handler </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- <li>JPublish Based Views - Generic Templates </li>
- <ol>
- <li> JPublish</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Page Definitions </li>
- <li> www.jpublish.org </li>
- <li> <webapp>/WEB-INF/jpublish.xml </li>
- <li> <webapp>/WEB-INF/pagedefs/**/*.xml </li>
- <li> Page Variables </li>
- <li> Decoration Templates </li>
- <li> Content, Template, and Page Actions </li>
- </ol>
- <li> BeanShell</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Data Preparation Actions </li>
- <li> www.beanshell.org </li>
- <li> <webapp>/WEB-INF/actions/**/*.bsh </li>
- <li> Java Syntax, with some scripting like features </li>
- <li> Dynamic Types </li>
- </ol>
- <li> FreeMarker</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Content Templates </li>
- <li> www.freemarker.org </li>
- <li> <webapp>/**/*.ftl </li>
- <li> PHP-like Syntax with Java Robustness and Flexibility </li>
- <li> Control Constructs (#if/#else/#elseif, #list, #assign) </li>
- <li> Built-ins </li>
- <li> Existence Concept and Fail-Fast (?exists,
-?has_content, ?if_exists)</li>
- </ol>
- <li>Generating PDFs (or other print formatted documents)</li>
- <ol>
- <li>Introduction to XSL:FO - Like HTML, but for Page Oriented
-Layout</li>
- <li>A Powerful Combination: JPublish, BeanShell, FreeMarker,
-and FOP</li>
- <li>How to Setup the view-map in controller.xml<br>
- </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- <li>Region Based Views - Servlet/JSP Templates </li>
- <ol>
- <li> Region Framework</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Defining Template Based Regions </li>
- <li> Defining Inheritance or Region Based Regions </li>
- <li> Using, or Not Using, Sections </li>
- </ol>
- <li> OFBiz Taglib</li>
- <ol>
- <li> URL Tags </li>
- <li> Conditional Tags </li>
- <li> Flow Control Tags </li>
- <li> Data Presentation Tags </li>
- <li> Internationalization Tags </li>
- <li> Service Engine Tags </li>
- <li> Other Tags </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- <li>OFBiz Widgets</li>
- <ol>
- <li>Meant for use in various types of UIs, initial implementations
-for webapps<br>
- </li>
- <li>Menu Widget</li>
- <ol>
- <li>Menu Definition XML</li>
- <li>Rendering Menus<br>
- </li>
- </ol>
- <li>Form Widget</li>
- <ol>
- <li>Form Definition XML</li>
- <li>Rendering Forms<br>
- </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- <li> MiniLang
- <ol>
- <li> simple-map-processor
+ </style>
+ </head>
+ <body lang="en-US">
+ <center><h2>Advanced Framework Training Outline</h2></center>
+ <div>Written By: David E. Jones</div>
+ <div>Email: <a href="mailto:jonesde at ofbiz.org">jonesde at ofbiz.org</a></div>
+ <div>Open For Business Site: <a href="http://www.ofbiz.org/">http://www.ofbiz.org</a></div>
+ <br/>
+ <div>Last Updated: June 2006</div>
+ <hr/>
+ <br/>
+ <h3>Target Audience</h3>
<ol>
- <li> General Concept </li>
- <li> Make In String Operations </li>
- <li> Process Field Operations </li>
+ <li>Senior Developers</li>
+ <li>Senior Architects</li>
</ol>
- </li>
- <li> simple-method</li>
- <ol>
- <li> General Concept </li>
- <li> Call Operations </li>
- <li> Java Call Operations </li>
- <li> Control and Error Handling Operations </li>
- <li> Event Specific Operations </li>
- <li> Service Specific Operations </li>
- <li> Method Environment Operations </li>
- <li> Entity Engine Misc. Operations </li>
- <li> Entity Engine Find Operations </li>
- <li> Entity Engine Value Operations </li>
- <li> Entity Engine List Operations </li>
- <li> Entity Engine Transaction Operations </li>
- <li> Conditional (If) Operations </li>
- <li> Other Operations </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Some Examples </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
-</ol>
-<br>
-<div>Part 2: The Entity and Service Engines</div>
-<ol>
- <li> The Entity Engine</li>
- <ol>
- <li> ofbiz/website/docs/entity.html </li>
- <li> ofbiz/website/docs/entityconfig.html </li>
- <li> Architecture & Design Goals</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Database (or datasource) Agnostic </li>
- <li> Dynamic API Behaves According to Entity Definitions </li>
- <li> Minimal Redundancy from Data Definitions </li>
- <li> Uses JDBC and JTA J2EE Components</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Can operate in the same transaction with EJB ,
-JDO, Hibernate, etc code</li>
- <li>Can drop down to JDBC when necessary </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- <li> Configuration</li>
- <ol>
- <li> ofbiz/components/entity/config/entityengine.xml </li>
- <li>Transaction (JTA) Setup </li>
- <li> Delegators </li>
- <li> Datasources </li>
- </ol>
- <li>Entity Groups & Delegation<br>
- </li>
- <li> Entity Definitions</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Entities </li>
- <li> Fields </li>
- <li> Primary Keys </li>
- <li> Relationships </li>
- </ol>
- <li> View Entity Definitions</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Member Entities </li>
- <li> Field Aliases </li>
- <li> View Links </li>
- <li> Relationships </li>
- <li> Joins: Inner & Outer </li>
- <li> Grouping and Summary Data</li>
- </ol>
- <li> The GenericDelegator API</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Factory Methods (GenericDelegator, GenericPK,
-GenericValue) </li>
- <li> Creating, Storing & Removing </li>
- <li> Finding</li>
- <ol>
- <li> By Primary Key </li>
- <li> By �And� </li>
- <li> EntityConditions
- <ol>
- <li> EntityFieldMap </li>
- <li> EntityExpr </li>
- <li> EntityConditionList </li>
- <li> EntityWhereString </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> The EntityListIterator (remember to close) </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Caching</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Theory of Operation </li>
- <li> UtilCache & The Webtools Cache Page </li>
- <li> Automatic & Manual Cache Clearing </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- <li> The GenericEntity API</li>
- <ol>
- <li> GenericPK </li>
- <li> GenericValue </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Overview of GenericHelper Interface</li>
- <li>Entity ECAs</li>
- <ol>
- <li>When to Use an Entity ECA</li>
- <li>Defining Entity ECAs</li>
- <li>Limitations </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- <li> The Service Engine</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Architecture & Design Goals</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Agnostic Service Calls</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Implementation Agnostic </li>
- <li> Location Agnostic </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Synchronicity Support </li>
- <li> Parameter Validation </li>
- <li> Service �Engines�</li>
- <ol>
- <li> The GenericEngine Interface </li>
- <li> Overview of Existing Engines </li>
- <li> Designing a New Engine </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- <li> Service Engine Configuration</li>
- <ol>
- <li> website/docs/serviceconfig.html </li>
- <li> ofbiz/components/service/dtd/service-config.dtd </li>
- <li> commonapp/etc/serviceengine.xml </li>
- <li> JNDI Servers & Resource Loaders </li>
- <li> Global Service Definition Files </li>
- <li> Service Group and ECA Rule Files </li>
- <li> JMS Servers </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Advanced Service Definitions</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Parameters and Validation </li>
- <li> Interface Services </li>
- <li> Service Authentication </li>
- <li> Transaction Control </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Remote Services</li>
- <ol>
- <li> JMS Services </li>
- <li> HTTP Services </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Implementing Services</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Service Context (parameters and return values) </li>
- <li> Java Services </li>
- <li> Bean Shell Services </li>
- <li> simple-method Services </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Calling Services</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Synch & Asynch </li>
- <li> Scheduled Services </li>
- <li> Calling From:</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Java </li>
- <li> simple-method </li>
- <li> Control Servlet </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- <li> Service Groups</li>
- <ol>
- <li> ofbiz/components/service/dtd/service-group.dtd </li>
- <li> Defining Groups</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Groups </li>
- <li> Services Per Group </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- <li> Event-Condition-Action (ECA) Rules</li>
- <ol>
- <li> ofbiz/components/service/dtd/service-eca.dtd </li>
- <li> Defining ECA Rules</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Events </li>
- <li> Conditions Per Event </li>
- <li> Actions Per Event </li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
- </ol>
-</ol>
-<br>
-<div>Part 3: The Workflow & Rule Engines, Data Files, Review,
-Q&A</div>
-<ol>
- <li> The Workflow Engine
- <ol>
- <li>Process Management Concepts</li>
- <ol>
- <li>Workflow Style</li>
+ <h3>Topics Covered</h3>
+ <h4>Part 1: The Webapp Framework, Widgets & MiniLang</h4>
<ol>
- <li>States & Transitions<br>
- </li>
- <li>WfMC & OMG<br>
- </li>
- <li>OFBiz Workflow</li>
- <li>Shark & JaWE<br>
- </li>
+ <li>Basic Framework Review</li>
+ <li>The Webapp Framework
+ <ol>
+ <li>Control Servlet
+ <ol>
+ <li>ofbiz/framework/webapp/dtd/site-conf.dtd</li>
+ <li><webapp>/WEB-INF/controller.xml</li>
+ <li>Requests</li>
+ <li>Events
+ <ol>
+ <li>Event Context (parameters and return values)</li>
+ <li>Event Handlers/Types</li>
+ <li>Service Events</li>
+ <li>simple-method Events</li>
+ <li>Java Events</li>
+ <li>Designing a new Event Handler</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Responses</li>
+ <li>Views
+ <ol>
+ <li>View Handlers/Types</li>
+ <li>Designing a new View Handler</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Screen Widget Based Views - Templates, Widgets, etc
+ <ol>
+ <li>Screen Widget
+ <ol>
+ <li>Screen Definitions</li>
+ <li><component>/widgets/**/*Screens.xml</li>
+ <li>Screen -> Section</li>
+ <li>Section -> Actions</li>
+ <li>Section -> Widgets</li>
+ <li>Section -> Conditions</li>
+ <li>Screen Decoration Pattern</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Form Widget
+ <ol>
+ <li>Form Definitions</li>
+ <li><component>/widgets/**/*Forms.xml</li>
+ <li>Form Element</li>
+ <li>Form Actions</li>
+ <li>Form Auto-Fields from Entities and Services</li>
+ <li>Form Fields</li>
+ <li>Form Sort Order</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Menu Widget
+ <ol>
+ <li>Menu Definitions</li>
+ <li><component>/widgets/**/*Menus.xml</li>
+ <li>Menu Items</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Tree Widget
+ <ol>
+ <li>Tree Definitions</li>
+ <li><component>/widgets/**/*Trees.xml</li>
+ <li>Tree Nodes</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>BeanShell
+ <ol>
+ <li>Data Preparation Actions</li>
+ <li>www.beanshell.org</li>
+ <li><webapp>/WEB-INF/actions/**/*.bsh</li>
+ <li>Java Syntax, with some scripting like features</li>
+ <li>Dynamic Types</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>FreeMarker
+ <ol>
+ <li>Content Templates</li>
+ <li>www.freemarker.org</li>
+ <li><webapp>/**/*.ftl</li>
+ <li>PHP-like Syntax with Java Robustness and Flexibility</li>
+ <li>Control Constructs (#if/#else/#elseif, #list, #assign)</li>
+ <li>Built-ins</li>
+ <li>Existence Concept and Fail-Fast (?exists, ?has_content, ?if_exists)</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Generating PDFs (or other print formatted documents)
+ <ol>
+ <li>Introduction to XSL:FO - Like HTML, but for Page Oriented Layout</li>
+ <li>A Powerful Combination: Screen Widget, BeanShell, FreeMarker, and FOP</li>
+ <li>How to Setup the view-map in controller.xml</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>JPublish Based Views - Generic Templates <ol>
+ <li>JPublish <ol>
+ <li>Page Definitions</li>
+ <li>www.jpublish.org</li>
+ <li><webapp>/WEB-INF/jpublish.xml</li>
+ <li><webapp>/WEB-INF/pagedefs/**/*.xml</li>
+ <li>Page Variables</li>
+ <li>Decoration Templates</li>
+ <li>Content, Template, and Page Actions</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Just as in Screen Widget use BeanShell for data preparation and FreeMarker for temapltes</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Region Based Views - Servlet/JSP Templates <ol>
+ <li>Region Framework
+ <ol>
+ <li>Defining Template Based Regions</li>
+ <li>Defining Inheritance or Region Based Regions</li>
+ <li>Using, or Not Using, Sections</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>OFBiz Taglib
+ <ol>
+ <li>URL Tags</li>
+ <li>Conditional Tags</li>
+ <li>Flow Control Tags</li>
+ <li>Data Presentation Tags</li>
+ <li>Internationalization Tags</li>
+ <li>Service Engine Tags</li>
+ <li>Other Tags</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>OFBiz Widgets
+ <ol>
+ <li>Meant for use in various types of UIs, initial implementations for webapps</li>
+ <li>Menu Widget
+ <ol>
+ <li>Menu Definition XML</li>
+ <li>Rendering Menus</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Form Widget
+ <ol>
+ <li>Form Definition XML</li>
+ <li>Rendering Forms</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>MiniLang
+ <ol>
+ <li>simple-map-processor
+ <ol>
+ <li>General Concept</li>
+ <li>Make In String Operations</li>
+ <li>Process Field Operations</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>simple-method
+ <ol>
+ <li>General Concept</li>
+ <li>Call Operations</li>
+ <li>Java Call Operations</li>
+ <li>Control and Error Handling Operations</li>
+ <li>Event Specific Operations</li>
+ <li>Service Specific Operations</li>
+ <li>Method Environment Operations</li>
+ <li>Entity Engine Misc. Operations</li>
+ <li>Entity Engine Find Operations</li>
+ <li>Entity Engine Value Operations</li>
+ <li>Entity Engine List Operations</li>
+ <li>Entity Engine Transaction Operations</li>
+ <li>Conditional (If) Operations</li>
+ <li>Other Operations</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Some Examples</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
</ol>
- <li>Message Flow Style</li>
+ <h4>Part 2: The Entity and Service Engines</h4>
<ol>
- <li>Messages & Nodes (consumers & producers)<br>
- </li>
- <li>ebXML BPSS (Business Process Specification, like
-interface)<br>
- </li>
- <li>BPML & BPMI</li>
- <li>SOAP Related Standards<br>
- </li>
+ <li>The Entity Engine
+ <ol>
+ <li>ofbiz/website/docs/entity.html</li>
+ <li>ofbiz/website/docs/entityconfig.html</li>
+ <li>Architecture & Design Goals
+ <ol>
+ <li>Database (or datasource) Agnostic</li>
+ <li>Dynamic API Behaves According to Entity Definitions</li>
+ <li>Minimal Redundancy from Data Definitions</li>
+ <li>Uses JDBC and JTA J2EE Components
+ <ol>
+ <li>Can operate in the same transaction with EJB , JDO, Hibernate, etc code</li>
+ <li>Can drop down to JDBC when necessary</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Configuration
+ <ol>
+ <li>ofbiz/components/entity/config/entityengine.xml</li>
+ <li>Transaction (JTA) Setup</li>
+ <li>Delegators</li>
+ <li>Datasources</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Entity Groups & Delegation</li>
+ <li>Entity Definitions
+ <ol>
+ <li>Entities</li>
+ <li>Fields</li>
+ <li>Primary Keys</li>
+ <li>Relationships</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>View Entity Definitions <ol>
+ <li>Member Entities</li>
+ <li>Field Aliases</li>
+ <li>View Links</li>
+ <li>Relationships</li>
+ <li>Joins: Inner & Outer</li>
+ <li>Grouping and Summary Data</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>The GenericDelegator API
+ <ol>
+ <li>Factory Methods (GenericDelegator, GenericPK, GenericValue)</li>
+ <li>Creating, Storing & Removing</li>
+ <li>Finding
+ <ol>
+ <li>By Primary Key</li>
+ <li>By And</li>
+ <li>EntityConditions
+ <ol>
+ <li>EntityFieldMap</li>
+ <li>EntityExpr</li>
+ <li>EntityConditionList</li>
+ <li>EntityWhereString</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>The EntityListIterator (remember to close)</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Caching
+ <ol>
+ <li>Theory of Operation</li>
+ <li>UtilCache & The Webtools Cache Page</li>
+ <li>Automatic & Manual Cache Clearing</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>The GenericEntity API
+ <ol>
+ <li>GenericPK</li>
+ <li>GenericValue</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Overview of GenericHelper Interface</li>
+ <li>Entity ECA (Event-Condition-Action) Rules
+ <ol>
+ <li>When to Use an Entity ECA: Data Maintenance, not Business Processes</li>
+ <li>Defining Entity ECAs</li>
+ <li>Limitations</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>The Service Engine
+ <ol>
+ <li>Architecture & Design Goals
+ <ol>
+ <li>Agnostic Service Calls
+ <ol>
+ <li>Implementation Agnostic</li>
+ <li>Location Agnostic</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Synchronicity Support</li>
+ <li>Parameter Validation</li>
+ <li>Service Engines
+ <ol>
+ <li>The GenericEngine Interface</li>
+ <li>Overview of Existing Engines</li>
+ <li>Designing a New Engine</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Service Engine Configuration
+ <ol>
+ <li>website/docs/serviceconfig.html</li>
+ <li>ofbiz/components/service/dtd/service-config.dtd</li>
+ <li>commonapp/etc/serviceengine.xml</li>
+ <li>JNDI Servers & Resource Loaders</li>
+ <li>Global Service Definition Files</li>
+ <li>Service Group and ECA Rule Files</li>
+ <li>JMS Servers</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Advanced Service Definitions
+ <ol>
+ <li>Parameters and Validation</li>
+ <li>Interface Services</li>
+ <li>Service Authentication</li>
+ <li>Transaction Control</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Remote Services
+ <ol>
+ <li>JMS Services</li>
+ <li>HTTP Services</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Implementing Services
+ <ol>
+ <li>Service Context (parameters and return values)</li>
+ <li>Java Services</li>
+ <li>Bean Shell Services</li>
+ <li>simple-method Services</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Calling Services
+ <ol>
+ <li>Synch & Asynch</li>
+ <li>Scheduled Services</li>
+ <li>Calling From:
+ <ol>
+ <li>Java</li>
+ <li>simple-method</li>
+ <li>Control Servlet</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Service Groups
+ <ol>
+ <li>ofbiz/components/service/dtd/service-group.dtd</li>
+ <li>Defining Groups
+ <ol>
+ <li>Groups</li>
+ <li>Services Per Group</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Service Event-Condition-Action (ECA) Rules
+ <ol>
+ <li>ofbiz/components/service/dtd/service-eca.dtd</li>
+ <li>Defining ECA Rules
+ <ol>
+ <li>Events</li>
+ <li>Conditions Per Event</li>
+ <li>Actions Per Event</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
</ol>
- </ol>
- <li> Workflow Concepts
+ <h4>Part 3: The Workflow Engine, Data Files, Review, Q&A</h4>
<ol>
- <li> Processes </li>
- <li> Activities
- <ol>
- <li> Manual Start/End </li>
- <li> Automatic Start/End </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Transitions </li>
- <li> Splitting and Merging </li>
- <li> Workflow Data Context </li>
- <li> Asynchronous Execution </li>
+ <li>The Workflow Engine
+ <ol>
+ <li>Process Management Concepts
+ <ol>
+ <li>Workflow Style
+ <ol>
+ <li>States & Transitions</li>
+ <li>WfMC & OMG</li>
+ <li>OFBiz Workflow</li>
+ <li>Shark & JaWE</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Message Flow Style
+ <ol>
+ <li>Messages & Nodes (consumers & producers)</li>
+ <li>ebXML BPSS (Business Process Specification, like interface)</li>
+ <li>BPML & BPMI</li>
+ <li>SOAP Related Standards</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Workflow Concepts
+ <ol>
+ <li>Processes</li>
+ <li>Activities
+ <ol>
+ <li>Manual Start/End</li>
+ <li>Automatic Start/End</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Transitions</li>
+ <li>Splitting and Merging</li>
+ <li>Workflow Data Context</li>
+ <li>Asynchronous Execution</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Workflow Engine Architecture
+ <ol>
+ <li>Service Engine Based
+ <ol>
+ <li>Calling Workflows Through Service Engine</li>
+ <li>Calling Other Services in a Workflow</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Uses Entity Engine for Workflow Definition and Run-Time Data Persistence</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Designing Workflows
+ <ol>
+ <li>What Needs to be Done?</li>
+ <li>Who Will Do What?</li>
+ <li>What Dependencies Exist Between Activities?</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Defining Workflows
+ <ol>
+ <li>Basic XPDL</li>
+ <li>Working With Parties, Groups, and Roles</li>
+ <li>OFBiz Extensions</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Importing and Managing Workflow Definitions</li>
+ <li>Running Workflows</li>
+ <li>Interacting With Running Workflows</li>
+ <li>Client API (UI development)</li>
+ <li>Monitoring & Testing Workflows</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>The Data File Tool
+ <ol>
+ <li>The Wonderful World of Flat Files</li>
+ <li>Generic Data Structures for Flat File Data (very similar to the Entity Engine structures)</li>
+ <li>Defining Data Files</li>
+ <li>The Data File API</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Review</li>
+ <li>Q&A</li>
</ol>
- </li>
- <li> Workflow Engine Architecture
- <ol>
- <li> Service Engine Based
- <ol>
- <li> Calling Workflows Through Service Engine </li>
- <li> Calling Other Services in a Workflow </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Uses Entity Engine for Workflow Definition and
-Run-Time Data Persistence </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li>Designing Workflows</li>
- <ol>
- <li>What Needs to be Done?</li>
- <li>Who Will Do What?</li>
- <li>What Dependencies Exist Between Activities?<br>
- </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Defining Workflows
- <ol>
- <li> Basic XPDL </li>
- <li> Working With Parties, Groups, and Roles </li>
- <li> OFBiz Extensions </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Importing and Managing Workflow Definitions </li>
- <li> Running Workflows </li>
- <li> Interacting With Running Workflows </li>
- <li> Client API (UI development)</li>
- <li>Monitoring & Testing Workflows<br>
- </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> The Rule Engine
- <ol>
- <li> A Declarative Logic Language </li>
- <li> Based on Building Parsers In Java by Steven Metsker </li>
- <li> Constraint Based Problem Solving </li>
- <li> Deductive Problem Solving </li>
- <li> Interaction With a Database (ie as a fact-base) </li>
- <li> Needs Some Work </li>
- <li> Applying Concepts with Custom Rule Engines </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> The Data File Tool
- <ol>
- <li> The Wonderful World of Flat Files </li>
- <li> Generic Data Structures for Flat File Data (very similar
-to the Entity Engine structures) </li>
- <li> Defining Data Files </li>
- <li> The Data File API </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Review </li>
- <li> Q&A </li>
-</ol>
-<br>
-<br>
-</body>
+ <br/>
+ <br/>
+ </body>
</html>
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-<html>
-<head>
- <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
- <title>Basic Framework & Tools Overview</title>
- <style>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"/>
+ <title>Basic Framework & Tools Overview</title>
+ <style type="">
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font-size: 11px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
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- </style>
-</head>
-<body lang="en-US">
-<center>
-<h2>Basic Framework & Tools Overview<br>
-</h2>
-</center>
-<div>Written By: David E. Jones</div>
-<div>Email: <a href="mailto:jonesde at ofbiz.org">jonesde at ofbiz.org</a></div>
-<div>Open For Business Site: <a href="http://www.ofbiz.org/">http://www.ofbiz.org</a></div>
-<div>Founders and Lead Architects: David E. Jones & Andy Zeneski<br>
-</div>
-<div>Last Updated: 17 April 2004<br>
-</div>
-<hr><br>
-Target Audience
-<ol>
- <li>Web Designers/Developers </li>
- <li>Junior Developers </li>
- <li>Senior Developers (should also take the OFBiz Advanced Framework
-course) </li>
- <li>Architects </li>
- <li>Project Managers </li>
- <li>Program Managers </li>
- <li>Quality Assurance Personnel </li>
-</ol>
-Topics Covered<br>
-<ol>
- <li> Architecture Overview
- <ol>
- <li> Model-Controller-View Pattern (an old story with a new
-name) </li>
- <li> Lots of Controllers
+ </style>
+ </head>
+ <body lang="en-US">
+ <center><h2>Basic Framework & Tools Overview</h2></center>
+ <div>Written By: David E. Jones</div>
+ <div>Email: <a href="mailto:jonesde at ofbiz.org">jonesde at ofbiz.org</a></div>
+ <div>Open For Business Site: <a href="http://www.ofbiz.org/">http://www.ofbiz.org</a></div>
+ <div>Last Updated: June 2006</div>
+ <hr/>
+ <br/>
+ <h3>Target Audience</h3>
<ol>
- <li> Applying the Controller Pattern </li>
- <li> Data Level Controller (Entity Engine) </li>
- <li> Logic Level Controller (Service Engine) </li>
- <li> Web User Interface Level Controller (Control Servlet,
-JPublish, etc) </li>
+ <li>Web Designers/Developers</li>
+ <li>Junior Developers</li>
+ <li>Senior Developers (should also take the OFBiz Advanced Framework course)</li>
+ <li>Architects</li>
+ <li>Project Managers</li>
+ <li>Program Managers</li>
+ <li>Quality Assurance Personnel</li>
</ol>
- </li>
- <li> The Model goes in the Database </li>
- <li> The View is what the user interacts with </li>
- <li> Everything else follows from those, and the only trick is
-to do it efficiently for initial implementation and maintenance. </li>
- <li> Data Flow Between Components
+ <h3>Topics Covered</h3>
<ol>
- <li> Request from Browser </li>
- <li> Control Servlet Called </li>
- <li> Request Looked Up </li>
- <li> Security Checked (encryption, authentication) </li>
- <li> Event Called (if defined)
- <ol>
- <li> Service Definition Looked Up </li>
- <li> Simple Method Called As a Service
- <ol>
- <li> Handle Data Coming In </li>
- <li> Look Up Information From Database </li>
- <li> Save Information to Database </li>
+ <li>Architecture Overview <ol>
+ <li>Model-Controller-View Pattern (an old story with a new name)</li>
+ <li>Lots of Controllers <ol>
+ <li>Applying the Controller Pattern</li>
+ <li>Data Level Controller (Entity Engine)</li>
+ <li>Logic Level Controller (Service Engine)</li>
+ <li>Web User Interface Level Controller (Control Servlet, Screen Widget, etc)</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>The Model goes in the Database</li>
+ <li>The View is what the user interacts with</li>
+ <li>Everything else follows from those, and the only trick is to do it efficiently for initial implementation and maintenance.</li>
+ <li>Data Flow Between Components <ol>
+ <li>Request from Browser </li>
+ <li>Control Servlet Called </li>
+ <li>Request Looked Up </li>
+ <li>Security Checked (encryption, authentication) </li>
+ <li>Event Called (if defined) <ol>
+ <li>Service Definition Looked Up </li>
+ <li>Simple Method Called As a Service <ol>
+ <li>Handle Data Coming In </li>
+ <li>Look Up Information From Database </li>
+ <li>Save Information to Database </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Response Chosen and Called <ol>
+ <li>View Looked Up</li>
+ <li>Screen (or Region or JPublish page) definition Looked Up</li>
+ <li>Template Called, Sections Filled In</li>
+ <li>Data Looked Up (directly through the Entity Engine or through a service)</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
</ol>
- </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Response Chosen and Called
- <ol>
- <li> View Looked Up </li>
- <li> Region or JPublish page definition Looked Up </li>
- <li> Template Called, Sections Filled In </li>
- <li> Data Looked Up (directly through the Entity Engine
-or through a service) </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
+ </li>
+ <li>Configuration & Deployment Overview <ol>
+ <li>Choosing and Setting Up a Database</li>
+ <li>Choosing and Setting Up an Application Server</li>
+ <li>OFBiz Configuration <ol>
+ <li>ofbiz/base/config/debug.properties</li>
+ <li>ofbiz/base/config/component-load.xml</li>
+ <li>ofbiz/framework/*/ofbiz-component.xml</li>
+ <li>ofbiz/applications/*/ofbiz-component.xml</li>
+ <li>ofbiz/framework/entity/config/entityengine.xml <ol>
+ <li>Transaction Manager Setup</li>
+ <li>Database Setup</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>ofbiz/framework/service/config/serviceengine.xml</li>
+ <li>Other Configuration Files <ol>
+ <li>ofbiz/base/config/*</li>
+ <li>ofbiz/framework/*/config/*</li>
+ <li>ofbiz/applications/*/config/*</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Beginning With the End in Mind <ol>
+ <li>What to build?</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Data (Entity) Layer <ol>
+ <li>Define Entities (configure data level controller)</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Logic (Service) Layer <ol>
+ <li>Define Services (configure logic level controller)</li>
+ <li>Implement Services <ol>
+ <li>Java Services</li>
+ <li>simple-method Services</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Using Service ECAs</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>User Interface Layer <ol>
+ <li>Configure Web User Interface Level Controllers <ol>
+ <li>Define Web Requests (controller.xml) <ol>
+ <li>Simple Request</li>
+ <li>Requests with an Event implemented as a Service</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Define Web Views (controller.xml)</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Create Web User Interfaces <ol>
+ <li>Choose a Decoration Screen</li>
+ <li>Create a Screen Definition (widgets/**/*Screens.xml)</li>
+ <li>Add Screen Actions for Data Preparation</li>
+ <li>Create an XML Form Widget Definition for Editing (widgets/**/*Forms.xml)</li>
+ <li>Create an XML Form Widget Definition for Listing (widgets/**/*Forms.xml)</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Internationalization and Localization in the UI</li>
+ <li>Security & Permissions Checking</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Throwing a Wrench in the Works <ol>
+ <li>Adding a New Field</li>
+ <li>Change the Entity Definition</li>
+ <li>Change the Service Definition</li>
+ <li>Add to the Listing Form (if needed)</li>
+ <li>Add to the Editing Form</li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Questions and Feedback</li>
</ol>
- </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li>Configuration & Deployment Overview
- <ol>
- <li>Choosing and Setting Up a Database </li>
- <li>Choosing and Setting Up an Application Server </li>
- <li>OFBiz Configuration
- <ol>
- <li>ofbiz/base/config/debug.properties </li>
- <li>ofbiz/base/config/component-load.xml </li>
- <li>ofbiz/framework/*/ofbiz-component.xml </li>
- <li>ofbiz/applications/*/ofbiz-component.xml </li>
- <li>ofbiz/framework/entity/config/entityengine.xml
- <ol>
- <li>Transaction Manager Setup </li>
- <li>Database Setup </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li>ofbiz/framework/service/config/serviceengine.xml </li>
- <li> Other Configuration Files
- <ol>
- <li>ofbiz/base/config/* </li>
- <li>ofbiz/framework/*/config/* </li>
- <li>ofbiz/applications/*/config/* </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Beginning With the End in Mind
- <ol>
- <li> What to build? </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Data (Entity) Layer
- <ol>
- <li> Define Entities (configure data level controller) </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Logic (Service) Layer
- <ol>
- <li> Define Services (configure logic level controller) </li>
- <li> Implement Services </li>
- <ol>
- <li>Java Services</li>
- <li>simple-method Services</li>
- </ol>
- <li>Using Service ECAs<br>
- </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> User Interface Layer
- <ol>
- <li> Configure Web User Interface Level Controllers</li>
- <ol>
- <li> Define Web Requests (controller.xml)
- <ol>
- <li> Simple Request </li>
- <li> Requests with an Event implemented as a Service </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Define Web Views (controller.xml) </li>
- </ol>
- <li> Create Web User Interfaces</li>
- <ol>
- <li>Choose a Decoration Template<br>
- </li>
- <li>Create a JPublish Page Definition
-(WEB-INF/pagedefs/**/*.xml) </li>
- <li> Create a BeanShell Preparation Scripts
-(WEB-INF/actions/**/*.bsh) </li>
- <li> Create an XML Form Widget Definition for Editing<br>
- </li>
- <li> Create an XML Form Widget Definition for Listing</li>
- </ol>
- <li>Internationalization and Localization in the UI</li>
- <li>Security & Permissions Checking<br>
- </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Throwing a Wrench in the Works
- <ol>
- <li> Adding a New Field </li>
- <li> Change the Entity Definition </li>
- <li> Change the Service Definition </li>
- <li> Add to the Listing FTL (if needed) </li>
- <li> Add to the Editing FTL </li>
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li> Questions and Feedback </li>
-</ol>
-<br>
-<br>
-<ol>
-</ol>
-</body>
+ <br/>
+ <br/>
+ </body>
</html>
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