This tutorial explains how to use a "rich client" web UI, inside OFBiz, via the ZK Rich framework (http://potix.com). That is, a ZK frontend but an OFBiz backend.
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From some comments in user ML it seems that this way of doing it is not the best one (if ever it works), please read rather |
Prerequisites
- A recent OFBiz build which includes https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-528 committed. This should be any SVN tag from 533448 upwards.
- JDK 1.5, with JAVA_HOME environment variable set correctly
- Comfortable with configuring a J2EE webapp via web.xml
- A webapp (either your own or one of OFBiz's) already working, that you are happy to mess around with as a sandbox
- Comfortable with creating your own OFBiz component and using ofbiz-component.xmlunmigrated-wiki-markup
- \[Part 3 only\] Familiarity with the [Spring Framework|http://springframework.org], at least ApplicationContext and WebApplicationContext
Preparation
- Download the latest stable binary (2.3.1 at the time of this writing) of ZK from here: http://potix.com/download/
- Unzip this binary to a temporary directory, which we will call ZK_DIR
- Make a shortcut to the PDFs in ZK_DIR/doc - zk-devguide.pdf is the most useful
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