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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

Binding model data with user interfaces


Presenting business data to end users without sacrificing the usability and scalability of the system is very important for any enterprise application. When you wire data from the business services implementation to the UI, in general, there are two tasks involved:

  • Invoking business services for data: Typical implementation may contain some infrastructure code to invoke business services for data access. The service invocation code may vary with technology used for building business services.

  • Binding the data with UI components: Once the business data is read, the application should populate data on the UI without losing the meaning.

The ADF model performs the preceding tasks in a more generic way by abstracting the infrastructure code required for service invocation and data binding from developers. ADF uses the following concepts to bind the UI with the data model:

  • Data control: Data control acts as a proxy cum adaptor implementation for the business...