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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

Building data bound query search forms


The search functionality has become a very essential feature for any enterprise application which may need to deal with tons of data. The Oracle ADF framework has out of the box support for building feature rich search panels when you use the view object for querying the data source. In fact the implementation is much easier than you thought.

ADF uses the model-driven approach for building query components whose query model is derived from the view criteria that you defined in a view object. We have discussed view criteria in Chapter 4, Introducing the View Object, when we talked about view objects. In this section, we are revisiting the same topic to discuss some more points which we deferred then for later discussion.

Building the view criteria

To create a view criteria in a view object, perform the following steps:

  1. Open a view object in the overview editor and then select the Query tab.

  2. In the Query tab, expand the View Criteria section, and click on...