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Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development - Made Simple

By : Sten E. Vesterli
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Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development - Made Simple

By: Sten E. Vesterli

Overview of this book

<p>With Application Development Framework (ADF), Oracle gives you the tool its own developers use. Modern enterprise applications must be user-friendly, visually attractive, and fast performing and Oracle Fusion Applications are just that; but to get the desired output you need proven methods to use this powerful and flexible tool to achieve success in developing your enterprise applications.</p> <p>Just as you need to know more than how to wield a hammer to build a house, you need more than knowing ADF to build a successful enterprise application. This book explains how to use the technology, create a blueprint, and organize your work to ensure success.</p> <p>This book takes you through an entire enterprise application development project using ADF. The book begins with a proof of concept, demonstrating the basics of the ADF technology, and then moves on to estimating the effort. You will then learn the necessary skills required to structure your project, your code, and how to build a successful enterprise project with ADF.</p> <p>Additional topics allow you to explore the support tools required for source control and issue tracking, learn to integrate them into your development environment, and use them productively to develop an enterprise application. Out-of-the-box functionalities such as skinning, customization, and internationalization are discussed at length.</p>

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Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development - Made Simple
Sten E. Vesterli
Jun, 2011 | 396 pages
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development—Made Simple
Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development—Made Simple
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The ADF Proof of Concept
The ADF Proof of Concept
The very brief ADF primer
The Proof of Concept
Proof of Concept case study
Getting started with JDeveloper
Proof of Concept ADF Business Components
Proof of Concept ADF user interface
Summary
2
Estimating the Effort
Estimating the Effort
Gathering requirements
Application architecture
Estimating the solution
Adding it all up: the final estimate
Sanity check
From effort to calendar time
Summary
3
Getting Organized
Getting Organized
Skills required
Organizing the team
Gathering the tools
Structuring workspaces, projects, and code
Using projects
Naming conventions
Summary
4
Productive Teamwork
Productive Teamwork
The secret of productivity
Oracle Team Productivity Center
Version control
Subversion and Oracle Team Productivity Center together
Summary
5
Prepare to Build
Prepare to Build
Task flow templates
Page templates
Framework extension classes
Packaging your Common Code
Summary
6
Building the Enterprise Application
Building the Enterprise Application
Structuring your code
Building the Common Model
Organizing the work
Implementing Task Overview and Edit (UC008)
Implementing person task timeline (UC104)
Building the master application
Summary
7
Testing your Application
Testing your Application
Initial tests
User interface tests
Stress/performance tests
The Oracle alternative
Summary
8
Look and Feel
Look and Feel
Controlling the appearance
Skinning
Summary
9
Customizing the Functionality
Customizing the Functionality
Why customization?
How does an ADF customization work?
Applying the customization layers
Making an application customizable
Setting up JDeveloper for customization
Performing the customization
Summary
10
Securing your ADF Application
Securing your ADF Application
Security basics
Security decisions
Implementing ADF security
Application roles
Implementing user interface security
Implementing data security
Users and groups
Summary
11
Package and Deliver
Package and Deliver
What is in the package?
Preparing for deployment
Setting up the application server
Deploying the application
Scripting the build process
Summary
Internationalization
Internationalization
Automatic internationalization
How localizable strings are stored
Defining localizable strings
Performing the translation
Running your localized application
Localizing formats
More internationalization
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Sten E. Vesterli picked up Oracle development as his first job after graduating from the Technical University of Denmark, and hasn't looked back since. He has worked with almost every development tool and server Oracle has produced in the last decade and a half, including Oracle ADF, JDeveloper, WebLogic, SQL Developer, Portal, BPEL, Collaboration Suite, Designer, Forms, Reports, and even Oracle Power Objects.

He started sharing his knowledge with a conference presentation in 1997 and has since given more than 50 conference presentations at Oracle OpenWorld and at ODTUG, IOUG, UKOUG, DOAG, and other user group conferences. His presentations are consistently highly rated by the participants, and in 2010 he received the ODTUG Best Speaker award.

He has also written numerous articles, participated in podcasts, and written the book Oracle Web Applications 101.

Oracle has recognized Sten's skills as an expert communicator on Oracle technology by awarding him the prestigious title Oracle ACE Director, carried by less than 100 people in the world. He is also an Oracle Fusion User Experience Advocate and sits on the Oracle Usability Advisory Board.

Based in Denmark, Sten is a partner in the Oracle consulting company Scott/Tiger, where he works as a senior principal consultant. When not writing books or presenting, he is helping customers choose the appropriate technology for their needs, teaching, mentoring, and leading development projects.

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