OFBiz Training Courses and Seminars

Written By: David E. Jones

Email: [email protected]

Open For Business Site: http://www.ofbiz.org

Founders and Lead Architects: David E. Jones & Andy Zeneski

Last Updated: January 4th, 2003

General Pricing Schedule:

1 Day: $800
2 Days: $1200
3 Days: $1600
5 Days: $2400
8 Days: $3600
In general (including for multiple class packages): First day $800, each additional day $400, per person

Policies:

BYOL: Bring Your Own Laptop, or Rent for $300
Two (2) Weeks Advance Registration
After two weeks before the course there will be a 20% late charge for registration.
$100 Cancellation Charge if you cancel at least one week before the course starts (no cancellation after one week before).
If we cancel the course a 100% refund will be issued. Courses will be finalized or cancelled at the latest 1 week before the start of the course.
The city location will announced well in advance but the actual training location may not be finalized until 1 week before the class starts.
The course will always be done if there are at least 4 people registered, otherwise we will have to decide based on other factors.

Onsite Pricing: Call or Email for Arrangements

Open Source for Business Seminar (detailed outline)
1. 1 Day Seminar
2. Target Audience
  1. Managers
  2. Decision Makers
  3. Developers
  4. Others Interested
3. Covers
  1. Open Source Principles
  2. Different Types of Software & How Open Source Applies
  3. Open Source Licenses
  4. Using Open Source Software in Your Business
  5. Making Money with Open Source Software
  6. Quick Overview of Popular and Useful Open Source Projects
OFBiz Applications: Basic Setup and Use
1. 1 Day (or 2?)
2. Target Audience
  1. System Users
  2. Application Maintenance Personnel
  3. User Support Staff
3. Covers
  1. eCommerce (and Supporting Applications)
  2. Inventory, Stores and Warehouses
  3. Sales, Invoicing
  4. Party Management
    1. Employee Information and Company Structure
    2. Customer Information Management & Customer Support
  5. Accounting
OFBiz Configuration, Deployment & Live System Support
1. 1 Day
2. Target Audience
  1. System Administrators
  2. Database Administrators
  3. Application Server Administrators
3. Covers
  1. Building Blocks
    1. Operating System Recommendations
    2. Database Server Recommendations
    3. Application Server Recommendations
    4. Server Farm & Network Layout Recommendations
  2. Setting Up a Database
  3. Setting Up an Application Server
  4. Deploying OFBiz
    1. Database Configuration
    2. Transaction Manager Configuration
    3. JMS Configuration
  5. Restarting and Hot-deployable Components
  6. The OFBiz WebTools
OFBiz Basic Technical Course (detailed outline)
1. 2 Day Course
2. Target Audience
  1. Web Designers/Developers
  2. Junior Developers
  3. Senior Developers (should also take the OFBiz Advanced Framework course)
  4. Architects
  5. Project Managers
  6. Program Managers
  7. Quality Assurance People
3. Covers
  1. Day 1
    1. OFBiz Architecture
    2. Configuration & Deployment
    3. Component Implementation Example
      1. Entity Definition
      2. Service Defitinition & Implementation
      3. Defining Web Requests, Events & Responses
      4. Creating Web Views with the Region Framework & JSPs
  2. Day 2
    1. The OFBiz Common Application Components
      1. The Data Model
      2. Services, Events & Workers
    2. The OFBiz Applications
OFBiz Advanced Framework Course (detailed outline)
1. 3 Day Course
2. Target Audience
  1. Senior Developers
  2. Senior Architects
3. Covers
  1. Day 1
    1. The Webapp Framework
      1. The Control Servlet
      2. The Regions Framework
      3. The Taglib
    2. The XML Mini-Language
      1. simple-map-processor
      2. simple-method
  2. Day 2
    1. The Entity Engine
      1. Architecture & Design Goals
      2. Configuration
      3. Defining Entities
      4. Defining View-Entities
      5. The GenericDelegator API
    2. The Service Engine
      1. Architecture & Design Goals
      2. Configuration
      3. Defining Services
      4. Remote Services
      5. Calling Services: Synch, Asynch & Scheduled
      6. Service Groups
      7. Event Condition Action (ECA) Rules
  3. Day 3
    1. The Workflow Engine
    2. The Rule Engine
    3. The Data File Tools
    4. Review and Q&A