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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

The navigation model in the JSF framework


The JSF framework has a very flexible navigation model which decouples navigation rules from the JSF page as well as from underlying business logic.

The JSF 2.0 navigation model supports two types of navigations:

  • Rule based navigation

  • Implicit navigation

Rule based navigation

The core JSF navigation model is built based on navigation rules which decide the next page in the navigation flow in response to the outcome produced by the actionable UI components. JSF uses a faces-config.xml file to store all the navigation rules and managed beans used in the application. The following is an example for navigation rules defined in faces-config.xml.

<navigation-rule>
  <from-view-id>/department.jsf</from-view-id>
  <navigation-case>
    <from-outcome>viewEmployees</from-outcome>
    <to-view-id>/employee.jsf</to-view-id>
  </navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

In this example, the framework will navigate...