Views in ofbiz

[Eric Schwartz <er...@steelerubber.com>]

When scrolling through the entity data maintenance screens in ofbiz you 
notice a bunch of view entitys. I am curious about how ofbiz creates the 
views. I noticed that they are not views stored in the database. Is this to 
keep ofbiz database agnostic and supply view functionality to databases that 
don't support them?


-- 
Eric Schwartz
Web Developer/IT Department
800.544.8665 ext 273
erics@steelerubber.com 

Re: Views in ofbiz

["David E. Jones" <jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>]

A view-entity is fairly different from a "view" in a database,  
thought the abstract concept is about the same.

In the database a view-entity is implemented using JOINs for multiple  
member-entities, and grouping and functions for the summary data side  
of things.

Conceptually a view-entity is just a virtual view on top of one or  
more entities.

-David


On Mar 29, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Eric Schwartz wrote:

> When scrolling through the entity data maintenance screens in ofbiz  
> you
> notice a bunch of view entitys. I am curious about how ofbiz  
> creates the
> views. I noticed that they are not views stored in the database. Is  
> this to
> keep ofbiz database agnostic and supply view functionality to  
> databases that
> don't support them?
>
>
> -- 
> Eric Schwartz
> Web Developer/IT Department
> 800.544.8665 ext 273
> erics@steelerubber.com
>
>
>

Re: Views in ofbiz

[Eric Schwartz <er...@steelerubber.com>]

thanks for the clarification.


"Eric Schwartz" <er...@steelerubber.com> wrote in message 
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> When scrolling through the entity data maintenance screens in ofbiz you 
> notice a bunch of view entitys. I am curious about how ofbiz creates the 
> views. I noticed that they are not views stored in the database. Is this 
> to keep ofbiz database agnostic and supply view functionality to databases 
> that don't support them?
>
>
> -- 
> Eric Schwartz
> Web Developer/IT Department
> 800.544.8665 ext 273
> erics@steelerubber.com
>
>
>