The best way to experience OFBiz is to dive right in and start "kicking the tires". No matter if you are an end user exploring the out-of-the-box e-commerce web store or a software developer getting ready to build a new application, you will find, eventually, that you perform the same tasks over and over again. This book is designed as a reference to guide you through those oft encountered OFBiz tasks. It is a collection of recipes, not necessarily in any particular order of importance, that address and give answer to many of the very real world questions asked about how to do things with OFBiz. If you are an OFBiz user who has some familiarity with enterprise software systems, and perhaps more importantly, Internet and Web exposure, you will be able to glean useful information from this book. For following some recipes you will need only basic knowledge of modern browser behavior (for example: how to click a mouse button) while others assume only a passing familiarity with a text-editor and XML documents. If you are a software developer looking for Java and/or Groovy examples, this book also includes a chapter on Java software development.
Ruth Hoffman Ruth Hoffman is an OFBiz evangelist with over 25 years of information technology experience, including stints in software design and development, training, project management, product marketing, and software sales, She has dedicated the last few years of her eventful career to furthering the OFBiz vision. Whether it be writing about OFBiz, providing implementation and OFBiz consulting services, or just "kicking the OFBiz tires" for each new release, she enjoys working with and telling the world about all that this amazing ERP software suite has to offer.
Ruth's current passion is her quest to provide high quality, cost effective OFBiz training and documentation. She has pursued this quest through multiple channels, including the OFBiz website. She invites everyone to stop by, take a gander, and give some feedback at myofbiz.com
As a long-standing supporter of OFBiz, she has authored several other OFBiz titles, including OFBiz E-Commerce Out-Of-The-Box and The OFBiz Catalog Manager.