ofbiz technical overview

4.9 Webtools

• Cache Tools
  • Cache Maintenance
    • View cache size and hit/miss statistics
    • Clear all caches, individual caches, even individual cache lines
    • Clear all expired cache entries
    • Manage cache prameters such as size limit, expire time, soft references, etc
    • View inidividual elements in each cache
• Debug Tools
  • Adjust Debugging Levels
    • Adjust debug log message levels as the application is running
    • Changes here stay until the server is shut down
    • For permanent changes, use the debug.properties file
• Entity Engine Tools
  • Entity Data Maintenance
    • Find, view, create, update, and remove data in any entity
    • Works dynamically according to entity definitions
    • Uses flexible permissions to allow access to all entities, or to a specific set of entities 
  • Entity Reference & Editing
    • Displays detail about all defined entities including fields, types, table & column names, relationships, etc
    • In main view frame entities are sorted alphabeticly by package
    • In the left frame there is an alphabetical list of package and an alphabetical list of all entities
    • Relationships are displayed with links to the related entities, making it easy to browse the data model
    • An editing page can be used to create and modify entity definitions in memory
    • A page that compares entity definitions to the database (just like what is done on startup) and optionally adds missing tables and columns to the database
    • Templates that write the entity model and entity group model XML files in a consistent way for easy comparison (note that these must be used to save in memory entity definition changes); these templates can also be used to output this information to the browser
    • A template that reads database meta-data and creates first pass XML entity definitions which can then be refined according to your preferences 
  • XML Data Export
    • Exports data from entities as an XML file
    • The XML is structured such that there is one element for each entity instance, and one attribute or sub-element for each populated field in the entity
    • The XML file can be saved to the disk on the server or delivered through the browser to be viewed and/or saved on the client
    • High performance and scalable stream based output technique can export an unlimited number of entity instances in each pass 
  • XML Data Import
    • Imports data from entities in an XML file
    • The XML is structured such that there is one element for each entity instance, and one attribute or sub-element for each populated field in the entity
    • The XML file can be loaded from the disk on the server or uploaded through a form in the browser
    • High performance and scalable stream and SAX based input processing technique can import an unlimited number of entity instances in each pass 
• Service Engine Tools
  • Job List
    • View all scheduled "job" services
    • Displays job ID, start date/time, finish date/time, and service name to invoke 
  • Schedule Job
    • Allows the manual scheduling of a named service
    • Can specify interval size and count
    • Can specify an absolute start and finish date/time
    • Can manually add data to the persisted context used for running the service 
  • Thread Viewer 
• Workflow Engine Tools
  • Workflow Monitor
    • View all running processes
    • Displays package & version, process & version, status, priority, start date, etc for each process
    • Can drill down to see all activity instances that are part of the process
    • Displays activity ID, priority, status, start date, complete date and assignments for each activity
    • Links to activity management page in the Work Effort Manager for each activity
    • Links to party profile management page in the Party Manager for each party assigned to each activity 
  • Read XPDL File
    • Reads, verifies, and displays an XPDL file
    • Can be located in a file on the server or at any URL location
    • Can verify only, or also write the data to the database for workflow process execution 
• Rule Engine Tools
  • Logikus - Run Rulesets
    • Provides a web-based user interface for querying a ruleset containing facts and inductive rules
    • Currently only supports backward chaining
    • Can determine one result at a time or all results at once
    • Many example rulesets are included for experimentation 
• Data File Tools
  • View Data File
    • Displays data from flat files based on a format definition file
    • Can write the data file back out to verify the format definition and read/write repeatability
    • Can load data file and format definition file from a URL or file on the server 
• Misc. Setup Tools
  • Edit Custom Time Periods
    • Browse, create, update, and delete hierarchical custom time periods
    • Time periods can be associated with an organization party, and browsing time periods can be filtered by party ID
    • Manages fiscal years, quarters, months, bi-week, week and any custom period type
    • Track a period number, period name, from date and thru date with each time period
  • Edit Enumerations
  • Edit Status Options
• Server Hit Statistics Tools
  • Stats Since Server Start
    • Displays server load and performance statistics for each resource, group of resources, and for all resources
    • Tracks data about different types of resources including requests, events and views
    • Displays accumulated data since the server started
    • Links to pages that display the same data for specifc time bins
    • Time bin data is persisted for future analysis