[OFBiz] Users - feedback on tutorials
Si Chen
schen at graciousstyle.com
Thu Jun 16 18:33:58 EDT 2005
Manuel,
I tried to put in your changes to my css, but it still doesn't work. I
wonder why?
Here's my css:
http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/images/main.css
Thanks for your (and everyone else's) help on this! I will try to work
on a few more of them in the next few days.
Si
Manuel Meyer wrote:
>Hi Si,
>I found this article on the net:
>http://users.tkk.fi/~tkarvine/linux/doc/pre-wrap/pre-wrap-css3-mozilla-opera
>-ie.html
>
>So I've modified your page accordingly, in order to test.
>It works fine under firefox, except that you might need to add a white space
>here and there, if there is no one present in very long lines, in order to
>do a line break.
>
>For ie, according to my tests, it does not work except if you set the <td>
>width with an integer value, instead of a percentage.
>By turning the 20% and 80% into 148 and 592 it works perfectly.
>I've joined the modified 'hello world application example' html page and a
>merge of your style sheet and the one found on the article.
>
>Hope it can help you,
>Manuel
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : users-bounces at lists.ofbiz.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ofbiz.org] De
>la part de Si Chen
>Envoyé : Monday, June 13, 2005 8:27 PM
>À : OFBiz Users / Usage Discussion
>Objet : Re: [OFBiz] Users - feedback on tutorials
>
>Hi everyone. Thanks for the help reading through this.
>
>I'll try to incorporate more graphics rather than text displays in the
>future...
>
>All of the code you are seeing is in the <pre> blocks. Not really
>possible to highlight stuff in there, unfortunately.
>
>I'll put in a word about freemarker and eclipse in the tutorial. Do you
>think I'm exaggerating by saying that freemarker is "very easy, intuitive"?
>
>Ruth--do you know why it's scrolling so far to the right? I'm not quite
>sure but if you (or anyone) knows of a fix, please let me know.
>
>Si
>
>Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>
>
>
>>Daniel Kunkel wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Si
>>>
>>>Your tutorial is brilliant, and is a wonderful addition to help jump
>>>start people with getting started with OFBiz. I think this will really
>>>help out the project!
>>>
>>>Mostly I just look forward to seeing additional installments which I see
>>>you've already started, but as you we're looking for feedback I did
>>>notice one thing...
>>>
>>>Would it be very difficult to note (bold?) the changes made to the
>>>hello1 controller file?
>>>Thanks for doing this!!! Hopefully David can get a link to this in the
>>>OFBiz.org site soon.
>>>
>>>Daniel
>>>
>>>On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:55 -0700, Si Chen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've made some ofbiz tutorials at
>>>>http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/tutorials.php
>>>>
>>>>I'd like to get your feedback and suggestions on these.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Si
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>Agreed. This is great. Thanks Si!
>>
>>A couple of things, which are not meant to detract from the usefulness
>>of this...
>>
>>1) If I were looking at this without any knowledge of OFBiz
>>development, I'd wonder why you are in the "Eclipse" root directory.
>>So, maybe a quick word or two about Eclipse and how it fits in. Maybe
>>all you need to say is something like this:
>>
>>Since OFBiz is relocatable and completely self-contained, it may run
>>anywhere on your system. For example, for this tutorial we have chosen
>>to deploy our OFBiz framework so that we may manage development using
>>the Eclipse IDE. This is not necessary. In fact, you may have several
>>versions of OFBiz resident on your computer at anytime, some installed
>>within the Eclipse directory tree, and others not. Of course, you may
>>only "run" a single version of OFBiz at any time.
>>
>>2) The part about Freemaker would also be confusing to me. Maybe a
>>word about why freemarker and not plain old .html files. I'm not sure
>>what would work here...but for a newbie, I think Freemarker is a real
>>red-herring that needs to be addressed right up front.
>>
>>3) OK, this is petty, but I'm just going to mention it anyhow - the
>>style sheet needs some work - on both Safari and Firefox, text scrolls
>>way to far to the right and I can't read the content without
>>scrolling. That makes following the tutorial flow difficult.
>>
>>But, again, great job!
>>
>>Ruth
>>
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Open Source Strategies
>
>
> * What is OFBiz? <index.php>
> * Tutorials <tutorials.php>
> * Downloads <downloads.php>
> * Accounting/GL <accounting.php>
> * Resources <resources.php>
> * OFBiz SoCal <ofbiz-socal.php>
>
>
>
>
> OFBiz Hello World Application Example
>
> /This tutorial will show you how to build a very simple OFBiz
> application. You will see how OFBiz application components and web
> applications are created, how web pages are created, and how an OFBiz
> controller helps direct web requests./
>
> This tutorial was done on Linux, but OFBiz and these examples will
> work with any operating system with a Java SDK.
>
>
> Creating an Application
>
> In OFBiz, every application sits inside its own fully contained
> component, so your first step is to create a component. A component
> can sit inside the framework/, application/, specialized/, or
> hot-deploy/ directory. The advantage of the hot-deploy/ directory is
> that components here are loaded automatically when OFBiz starts. So,
> for our first step, let's create a sub-directory in hot-deploy/ for
> our new component, which we'll call hello1:
>
>sichen at linux:~/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz> ls -l hot-deploy/
>total 4
>drwxrwxr-x 4 sichen users 136 2005-05-19 07:16 hello1
>-rw-r--r-- 1 sichen users 127 2005-06-02 15:19 README.txt
>
>
> (Note that everything in this tutorial is inside my eclipse/workspace/
> directories because I use the Eclipse IDE <http://www.eclipse.org>,
> but in fact you can put ofbiz anywhere, and the directory structure is
> the same.)
>
> Inside your new application component, there must be an
> ofbiz-component.xml file to tell OFBiz about your applicaton
> component: its data model (tables), business logic (services) and
> workflow, UI layer (web or GUI applications), any seed data it may
> have, and what other resources it requires. You can take a look at the
> ofbiz-component.xml files in other applications, which can be quite
> complex. For hello1, we just need to create a simple one that looks
> like this:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
><ofbiz-component name="hello1"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.ofbiz.org/dtds/ofbiz-component.xsd">
> <resource-loader name="main" type="component"/>
> <webapp name="hello1"
> title="My First OFBiz Application"
> server="default-server"
> location="webapp/hello1"
> mount-point="/hello1"
> app-bar-display="false"/>
></ofbiz-component>
>
>
> What is this file telling OFBiz?
>
> * That we have a component named "hello1"
> * That it should use the "main" resource-loader
> * That it has one web application, also called "hello1"
> * The "hello1" web application should use the "default-server" web
> server
> * The "hello1" web application is inside the webapp/ directory
> * The "hello1" web application should be mounted at a URI of "/hello1"
> * We don't want the app-bar, which shows all the applications
> available in OFBiz, to be displayed in our web app
>
>
> Creating a Web Application
>
> A web application is a UI component that interacts with the user over
> the web. An OFBiz application component can have several UI
> components, some of which are webapps.
>
> Now that you have configured your new application, the next step is to
> create a webapp/ directory for its web applications. Inside this
> directory, create a hello1/ directory for the "hello1" web app you
> just named. When you are done, it should look like this:
>
>sichen at linux:~/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz/hot-deploy/hello1> ls -l
>total 4
>-rw------- 1 sichen users 1733 2005-06-02 15:57 ofbiz-component.xml
>drwxrwxr-x 3 sichen users 72 2005-06-02 15:54 webapp
>sichen at linux:~/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz/hot-deploy/hello1> ls -l webapp/
>total 0
>drwxrwxr-x 3 sichen users 96 2005-06-02 16:10 hello1
>
>
> Now we are ready to work inside the webapp/hello1 directory and create
> a web application. Remember that OFBiz is a Model-View-Controller
> framework, which means that a controller manages visitor requests and
> routes them to the appropriate pages and actions. Thus, separate pages
> and a master controller are needed.
>
> Typically for Java web applications, pages which are viewable by
> visitors, such as HTML or JSPs, are inside a webapp/ directory, while
> private files, such as XML configuration files or Java servlets, are
> hidden inside a WEB-INF/ directory.
>
> This is the case with OFBiz as well. We'll first create a WEB-INF/
> directory and then create just one file to be displayed to our
> visitors, which we'll call main.ftl, for Freemarker
> <http://www.freemarker.org> template file. (Freemarker is a very easy,
> intuitive templating language that allows you to put basic controls,
> such as loops and if-then-else, around your HTML.) main.ftl is just a
> straightforward HTML file:
>
><html>
><head>
><title>Hello World</title>
></head>
><body>
><h1>HELLO</h1>
><p>Hello world!</p>
></body>
></html>
>
>
> Now this would be your contents of your webapp/hello1/ directory:
>
>sichen at linux:~/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz/hot-deploy/hello1/webapp/hello1> ls -l
>total 4
>-rw------- 1 sichen users 107 2005-06-02 16:23 main.ftl
>drwxrwxr-x 2 sichen users 104 2005-06-02 16:17 WEB-INF
>
>
> The final step is to create the files to configure the webapp. At a
> minimum, an OFBiz web application requires two configuration files, a
> controller.xml and a web.xml. controller.xml tells OFBiz what to do
> with various requests from visitors: what actions to take and what
> pages to render. web.xml tells OFBiz what resources (database and
> business logic access) are available for this web application and how
> to handle web-related issues, such as welcome pages, redirects, and
> error pages.
>
> If you're starting a new application, both files can be copied from
> the WEB-INF/ directory of an existing application. I copied mine over
> from the catalog manager. web.xml can almost be used in place, with no
> modification, like this:
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
>
><web-app>
> <display-name>Hello 1</display-name>
> <description>The First Hello World Application</description>
>
> <context-param>
> <param-name>entityDelegatorName</param-name>
> <param-value>default</param-value>
> <description>The Name of the Entity Delegator to use, defined in entityengine.xml</description>
> </context-param>
> <context-param>
> <param-name>localDispatcherName</param-name>
> <param-value>hello1</param-value>
> <description>A unique name used to identify/recognize the local dispatcher for the Service Engine</description>
> </context-param>
> <context-param>
> <param-name>serviceReaderUrls</param-name>
> <param-value>/WEB-INF/services.xml</param-value>
> <description>Configuration File(s) For The Service Dispatcher</description>
> </context-param>
>
> <filter>
> <filter-name>ContextFilter</filter-name>
> <display-name>ContextFilter</display-name>
> <filter-class>org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ContextFilter</filter-class>
> <init-param>
> <param-name>disableContextSecurity</param-name>
> <param-value>N</param-value>
> </init-param>
> <init-param>
> <param-name>allowedPaths</param-name>
> <param-value>/control: /select:/index.html:/index.jsp:/default.html:/default.jsp:/images:/includes/maincss.css</param-value>
> </init-param>
> <init-param>
> <param-name>errorCode</param-name>
> <param-value>403</param-value>
> </init-param>
> <init-param>
> <param-name>redirectPath</param-name>
> <param-value>/control/main</param-value>
> </init-param>
> </filter>
> <filter-mapping>
> <filter-name>ContextFilter</filter-name>
> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
> </filter-mapping>
>
> <listener><listener-class>org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ControlEventListener</listener-class></listener>
> <listener><listener-class>org.ofbiz.securityext.login.LoginEventListener</listener-class></listener>
> <!-- NOTE: not all app servers support mounting implementations of the HttpSessionActivationListener interface -->
> <!-- <listener><listener-class >org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ControlActivationEventListener</listener-class></listener> -->
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>ControlServlet</servlet-name>
> <display-name>ControlServlet</display-name>
> <description>Main Control Servlet</description>
> <servlet-class>org.ofbiz.webapp.control.ControlServlet</servlet-class>
> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
> </servlet>
> <servlet-mapping>
> <servlet-name>ControlServlet</servlet-name>
> <url-pattern>/control/*</url-pattern>
> </servlet-mapping>
>
> <session-config>
> <session-timeout>60</session-timeout> <!-- in minutes -->
> </session-config>
>
> <welcome-file-list>
> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
> <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
> <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
> </welcome-file-list>
></web-app>
>
>
> The controller.xml can also be copied but needs to be modified to
> reflect your needs: what your URI requests you want to allow in your
> webapp, and how you want OFBiz to process them. Here is the controller
> modified for hello1:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
>
><site-conf xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.ofbiz.org/dtds/site-conf.xsd">
> <description>First Hello World Site Configuration File</description>
> <owner>Open For Business Project (c) 2005 </owner>
> <errorpage>/error/error.jsp</errorpage>
>
> <handler name="java" type="request" class="org.ofbiz.webapp.event.JavaEventHandler"/>
> <handler name="soap" type="request" class="org.ofbiz.webapp.event.SOAPEventHandler"/>
> <handler name="service" type="request" class="org.ofbiz.webapp.event.ServiceEventHandler"/>
> <handler name="service-multi" type="request" class="org.ofbiz.webapp.event.ServiceMultiEventHandler"/>
> <handler name="simple" type="request" class="org.ofbiz.webapp.event.SimpleEventHandler"/>
>
> <handler name="ftl" type="view" class="org.ofbiz.webapp.ftl.FreeMarkerViewHandler"/>
> <handler name="jsp" type="view" class="org.ofbiz.webapp.view.JspViewHandler"/>
> <handler name="screen" type="view" class="org.ofbiz.widget.screen.ScreenWidgetViewHandler"/>
>
> <handler name="http" type="view" class="org.ofbiz.webapp.view.HttpViewHandler"/>
>
> <preprocessor>
> <!-- Events to run on every request before security (chains exempt) -->
> <!-- <event type="java" path="org.ofbiz.webapp.event.TestEvent" invoke="test"/> -->
> <event type="java" path="org.ofbiz.securityext.login.LoginEvents" invoke="checkExternalLoginKey"/>
> </preprocessor>
> <postprocessor>
> <!-- Events to run on every request after all other processing (chains exempt) -->
> <!-- <event type="java" path="org.ofbiz.webapp.event.TestEvent" invoke="test"/> -->
> </postprocessor>
>
> <!-- Request Mappings -->
> <request-map uri="main">
> <response name="success" type="view" value="main"/>
> </request-map>
>
> <!-- end of request mappings -->
>
> <!-- View Mappings -->
> <view-map name="error" page="/error/error.jsp"/>
> <view-map name="main" type="ftl" page="main.ftl"/>
> <!-- end of view mappings -->
></site-conf>
>
>
> The OFBiz controller allows you to specify:
>
> * handlers, which are Java classes that handle either requests or
> produce views in various formats. For example, the handler for
> "java" events routes requests to a Java servlet, while the
> "service" handler routes requests to the service engine,
> automatically parsing visitor input into service input
> parameters. The various view requests produce output to the
> browser based on Freemarker templates, velocity, JSP, or the
> OFBiz screen widget.
> * pre- and post-processors, which are servlets that are run before
> and after every web request.
> * request mappings, which map URI requests to either request or
> view handlers. Request mappings can also re-direct to other
> request mappings, allowing requests to be chained together.
> * view mappings, which generate output to the visitor by
> specifying where the page is located. By default, view mappings
> reference files starting from the current web application's
> directory, in this case, webapp/hello1/.
>
> In this simple controller, there are no pre- or postprocessor events
> to be run. Only one request is allowed, "/main", and it leads us to a
> view called "main", which uses main.ftl we created earlier to generate
> output back to the visitor.
>
>
> Running our application
>
> Now we are ready. Let's run our first application:
>
>sichen at linux:~/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz> ./startofbiz.sh
>sichen at linux:~/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz> tail -f logs/console.log
>
>
> In Linux, the startup script runs OFBiz in the background, so you need
> tail to see the console output. In Windows, just do:
>
>c:\ofbiz> startofbiz.bat
>
>
> and the output is displayed on your screen. The log file is quite
> lengthy but you will see these lines:
>
>...
>1607 (main) [ ComponentContainer.java:153:INFO ] Auto-Loading component directory : [/home/sichen/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz/hot-deploy]
>1619 (main) [ UtilXml.java:242:DEBUG] XML Read 0.011s: file:/home/sichen/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz/hot-deploy/hello1/ofbiz-component.xml
>1620 (main) [ ComponentContainer.java:209:INFO ] Loading component : [hello1]
>...
>18571 (main) [ ContextFilter.java:300:INFO ] [ContextFilter.init] Getting Entity Engine Delegator with delegator name default
>18573 (main) [ ServiceDispatcher.java:168:INFO ] Registered dispatcher: hello1
>18575 (main) [ GenericDispatcher.java:85 :INFO ] [LocalDispatcher] : Created Dispatcher for: hello1
>18577 (main) [ ControlServlet.java:74 :INFO ] [ControlServlet.init] Loading Control Servlet mounted on path /home/sichen/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz/hot-deploy/hello1/webapp/hello1/
>18578 (main) [ RequestHandler.java:89 :INFO ] [RequestHandler Loading...]
>18587 (main) [ UtilXml.java:242:DEBUG] XML Read 0.0080s: jndi:/0.0.0.0/hello1/WEB-INF/controller.xml
>18588 (main) [ ConfigXMLReader.java:552:INFO ] ConfigMap Created: (4) records in 0.0010s
>18588 (main) [ ConfigXMLReader.java:622:INFO ] HandlerMap Created: (2) records in 0.0s
>18589 (main) [ ConfigXMLReader.java:302:INFO ] RequestMap Created: (1) records in 0.0s
>18589 (main) [ ConfigXMLReader.java:411:INFO ] ViewMap Created: (2) records in 0.0s
>...
>21204 (main) [ CatalinaContainer.java:238:INFO ] Connector AJP/1.3 @ 8009 - not-secure [org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler] started.
>21204 (main) [ CatalinaContainer.java:235:INFO ] Connector HTTP/1.1 @ 8080 - not-secure [org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol] started.
>21205 (main) [ CatalinaContainer.java:235:INFO ] Connector TLS @ 8443 - secure [org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol] started.
>21209 (main) [ CatalinaContainer.java:242:INFO ] Started Apache Tomcat/5.5.9
>Httpd started on port: 9989
>Sessiond started on port: 9990
>21467 (main) [ BeanShellContainer.java:109:INFO ] Started BeanShell telnet service on 9989, 9990
>21467 (main) [ BeanShellContainer.java:110:INFO ] NOTICE: BeanShell service ports are not secure. Please protect the ports
>31903 (org.ofbiz.service.jms.JmsListenerFactory at 996b65) [ JmsListenerFactory.java:82 :INFO ] JMS Listener Factory Thread Finished; All listeners connected.
>
>
> The first little block shows OFBiz auto-loading the hello1 component
> from within hot-deploy/. The second block shows it setting up the
> hello1 webapp, getting a delegator (for database access), a dispatcher
> (for running services), and loading up the controller. The last block
> is what you will see when all the webapps are loaded and Tomcat, the
> default embedded web server, is started.
>
> From a browser, type in:
>
>http://localhost:8080/hello1/control/main
>
>
> and you will see this <../images/hello1.good.jpg>.
>
>
> Final Touchups
>
> Looks like we're done... but not yet. Try typing this in your browser:
>
>http://localhost:8080/hello1/
>
>
> and you will get this <../images/hello1.bad.jpg>. The problem is that
> /control is a specific request to the control servlet through the web
> server, and there is no index page at the root of the webapp. This is
> simple to fix: just copy one of this index.jsp from one of the other
> webapps into /webapp/hello1/. The index.jsp just has one line:
>
>sichen at linux:~/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz/hot-deploy/hello1/webapp/hello1> cat index.jsp
>
><%response.sendRedirect("control/main");%>
>
>
> Now if you try it again, http://localhost:8080/hello1/ will also get
> you to the right page.
>
> One last thing to try, type in:
>
>http://localhost:8080/hello1/control/nonsense
>
>
> You'd get a blank screen, because there is no error page right now.
> The location of your error page is specified in the beginning of your
> controller.xml above. You will need to make or copy over a
> /webapp/hello1/error/error.jsp page to show an error message to your
> visitors. It looks like this:
>
>sichen at linux:~/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz/hot-deploy/hello1/webapp/hello1> cat error/error.jsp
>
><% import="org.ofbiz.base.util.*" %>
><html>
><head>
><title>Open For Business Message</title>
><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
></head>
>
><% String errorMsg = (String) request.getAttribute("_ERROR_MESSAGE_"); %>
>
><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
><div align="center">
> <br/>
> <table width="100%" border="1" height="200">
> <tr>
> <td>
> <table width="100%" border="0" height="200">
> <tr bgcolor="#CC6666">
> <td height="45">
> <div align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#FFFFFF"><b>:ERROR MESSAGE:</b></font></div>
> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>
> <div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><%=UtilFormatOut.replaceString(errorMsg, "\n", "<br/>")%></font></div>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
></div>
><div align="center"></div>
></body>
></html>
>/html>
>
>
> Now try the "nonsense" request again, and you should get this page
> <../images/hello1.error.jpg>. Note that this is a very different error
> page: it is not from Apache Tomcat, like the first one you got, but
> from OFBiz. This is because with "/control" in your URI (and the
> re-direct even if you didn't have it), every request is being
> processed by the OFBiz controller now.
>
> This is the final content of your webapp directory:
>
>sichen at linux:~/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz/hot-deploy/hello1/webapp/hello1> ls -l
>total 8
>drwxr-xr-x 2 sichen users 144 2005-06-03 06:01 error
>-rw-r--r-- 1 sichen users 44 2005-06-03 05:52 index.jsp
>-rw------- 1 sichen users 1355 2005-06-02 16:26 main.ftl
>drwxrwxr-x 2 sichen users 232 2005-06-03 05:58 WEB-INF
>sichen at linux:~/eclipse/workspace/ofbiz/hot-deploy/hello1/webapp/hello1> ls -l error/
>total 4
>-rw-r--r-- 1 sichen users 1003 2005-06-03 05:55 error.jsp
>
>
>
> Conclusions
>
> So now you have created a fully self-contained ofbiz application, with
> its webapp, controller, page, and error page. You can download
> <../downloads/hello1.zip> this example, unzip it in your
> ofbiz/hot-deploy/ directory, and run it.
>
> This sure was a lot of work to display a simple web page. Obviously,
> if that's all you needed, OFBiz is way too complicated. But chances
> are, that's never all you needed to do. In future tutorials, we'll see
> how you can use OFBiz applications to develop your complex
> applications with a lot of different tables, pages, and complicated
> business logic. Then you will see the advantages of the OFBiz framework.
>
>
> © 2005 Open Source Strategies, Inc. All rights reserved.
>
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