Opentaps Technical Reference

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Technical Reference

These documents are for developers who plan on customizing or extending opentaps

General Information

Developer Documentation

opentaps and Google Web Toolkit

Tips and Tricks

API and Technical Design Reference

opentaps Architecture

Recommended Reading

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I'll continue to be mystified. 
Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.

-- The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks

Even after four decades, and long after the word "flowchart" has been replaced by "UML", data models still play a central role in software design. The following three books will give you three different perspectives on data modeling for enterprise applications and help you understand the heart of opentaps. You should read all three to get a balanced perspective:

<a target="_blank" href="">The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 1: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises</a><img src="//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=racioutyle-20&l=am2&o=1&a=0471380237" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

  • Data Model Resource Book, Volume 1. -- This comprehensive volume and approaches it from a relational perspective for transactional systems.
  • Domain Driven Design -- This book approaches the design of transactional applications from an object-oriented perspective.
  • [1] -- This book gives a comprehensive treatment from the analytical perspective.

There are also a couple of books about OFBiz on Amazon:

Other helpful references: