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This tutorial is designed for beginners with little or no OFBiz experience. It covers the fundamentals of the OFBiz application development process. The goal is to make a developer conversant with best practices, coding conventions, basic control flow, and all other aspects which that a developer needs for OFBiz customization.

This tutorial will help you in building your first "Demo Application" in OFBiz.

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titleImportant!

For any questions or concerns, please use Post your questions to the OFBiz User Mailing List. Details about the mailing lists are available here. 


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titlePre-Requisites
  • For the Trunk version, the ofbiz-framework trunk and ofbiz-plugins trunk the minimum requirement you need to be installed is Java 1.8 SDK or Sun JDK 1.8.
  • Apache OFBiz can be downloaded and run on both Unix-based and Windows-based systems.
  • Set JAVA_HOME environment variable (It is required to run Gradle build tool)
    Execute the following command on terminal: echo $JAVA_HOME (this will show a path(i.e home directory of your Java installation) which means the variable is set and if not please set)
  • System Specific specific requirements are available available here.


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titleThis tutorial is for trunk release. For release specific tutorials, please refer:

The branch-specific naming convention is taken based on the year and month in which the branch has been created.
For example Release 18.12 - Here 18 represents the Year 2018 and 12 represents to 12th Month(i.e December). The latest branch is the greatest branch and is highly recommended for general-purpose use.


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titleSource Code!

Apache OFBiz
Download Apache OFBiz®
OFBiz Source Repository and Access

Tutorial
The source code of the Practice Application demonstrated in this tutorial can be downloaded from [TODO].

Framework Introduction Videos
OFBiz YouTube Channel or Vimeo can be accessed for the same.

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Since the trunk was split into ofbiz-framework and ofbiz-plugins, the specialpurpose and hot-deploy directories have disappeared.
New components must be put in a plugins directory which works as was the hot-deploy directory.

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