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Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide

By : Jobinesh Purushothaman
Book Image

Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide

By: Jobinesh Purushothaman

Overview of this book

Oracle ADF in combination with JDeveloper IDE offers visual and declarative approaches to enterprise application development. This book will teach you to build scalable rich enterprise applications using the ADF Framework, with the help of many real world examples. Oracle ADF is a powerful application framework for building next generation enterprise applications. The book is a practical guide for the ADF framework and discusses how to use Oracle ADF for building rich enterprise applications. "Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide" discusses ADF framework in detail. This book contains a lot of real life examples which will help developers to design and develop successful enterprise applications. This book starts off by introducing the development environment and JDeveloper design time features. As you read forward, you will learn to build a full stack enterprise application using ADF. You will learn how to build business services using ADF, enable validation for the data model, declaratively build user interfaces for business service and enable security across application layers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Defining an application module


In this section we will learn about building and configuring an application module using JDeveloper IDE. This section mainly focuses on declarative development aspects.

Creating application modules

To define an application module, perform the following steps:

  1. Right-click on the model project and select New Application Module. In the Create Application Module dialog window, enter a package name and application module name. Then click on Next.

  2. On the Data Model page, select the view object you want to expose for use by the client from the Available View Objects list and shuttle it to the Data Model list. Optionally, you can rename the view object instance in the Data Model list to make it more readable. Click on Next.

  3. On the Application Module page, select the existing application module in the Available list and shuttle it to the Selected list to use it in the current application module. Optionally, you can rename the application module object instance in the Data...