Kumar A. ADempiere 3.6 Cookbook
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ADempiere 3.6 Cookbook
Over 100 recipes for extending and customizing
ADempiere beyond its standard capabilities
Ajit Kumar
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
ADempiere 3.6 Cookbook
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About the Author
Ajit Kumar started his IT career with Honeywell, Bangalore in embedded systems area and
moved on to enterprise business applications (such as ERP) in the 11 years of his career.
From day one, he was a staunch supporter and promoter of Open Source and believes,
strongly, that Open Source is the way for a liberal, diversied, and democratic setup like India.
He dreams and continuously endeavors that the architecture, frameworks, and tools must
facilitate the software development – at the speed of thought.
Ajit holds a B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bihar Institute of
Technology and has co-founded Walking Tree, which is based out of Hyderabad, India.
This is the place where he plays the role of a CTO, and works on fullling his vision.
I would like to thank my wife, Priti, my 4 year old son, Pratyush, and the
new born who was very patient and supportive; my work colleague, Suman,
whom I've had the pleasure to learn from; my business partners, Alok
and Pradeep who relentlessly talk about the book; friends who alwa
ys
encouraged me; the reviewers, and all the people behind the ADempiere
project and other Open Source projects.
About the Reviewers
Anuj Agarwal has a passion for providing easy solutions to complex business problems
using information technology as a key tool.
Anuj started his career in merchant banking/investment banking and worked for a while in
general management functions including nance, legal, and investor relations.
Anuj's passion to create smart solutions for business problems led him to consulting on
large projects. He consulted for companies in the public sector and the private sector on
solutions relating to nance, accounts, inventory, corporate loan management, housing loan
management, treasury, personnel, and HR management.
Anuj has been involved in ERP implementation for the last 10 years.
Anuj is currently the Director of Aditi Business Solution, a startup providing smart business
solutions to the corporate sector, public sector, and government sector in the areas of ERP,
CRM, Hospital Management, IT Trainings, Mobile APPS, and Scanning and Digitization of
documents and maps.
I would like to dedicate my work to Mr. B.K. Seth, my teacher, friend, and
philosopher, and would like to thank my wife Siddhi for all the support she
extended to me, while I spent extra hours on this book.
Bahman Movaqar is an ERP and Information Systems consultant specializing in Open
Source solutions. He has been working on ADempiere and Compiere projects for more than
5 years and has made several contributions to the ADempiere project, most notable among
them is nding and patching a major security hole. He is currently working with the Iranian
National Tax Administration Bureau as the CTO of an ERP project. He sometimes blogs on
http://BahmanM.com.
I'd like to thank my lovely wife Nahid for her patience during all those nights I
spent working on this book and my dear friend Timo for opening the gateway
to free Internet for me.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Preparing the Ground 7
Introduction 7
Creating the installer from the source code 9
Installing ADempiere 13
Debugging the ADempiere client application 17
(Desktop version) 17
Debugging the ADempiere server application 23
(web version) 23
Running multiple instances on a single server 34
Giving ADempiere your identity 37
Chapter 2: ADempiere Customization – Part I 41
Introduction 41
Creating a new window 43
Customizing an existing window 55
Creating a window with multiple tabs 58
Creating a search widget 66
Populating the combo-box list 76
Conguring a zoom window 80
Creating a read-only window 83
Creating a read-only tab 84
Creating read-only elds 87
Creating a new menu tree 89
Role set up and assigning a menu tree to a role 91
Defaulting the data display to single/multi-row mode 95
Showing the entity and line items on the same tab 96