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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 ingredients of an ADF task flow


The ADF task flow consists of three major elements: task flow configuration files, task flow activities, and managed bean definitions. The following section discusses each item in detail.

Task flow configuration files

When you build an ADF task flow, JDeveloper IDE generates a task flow definition file that will act as a registry for keeping task flow related artefacts. These files are discussed under this section.

  • adfc-config.xml: This file stores the metadata definition for the default unbounded task flow in a Fusion web application. JDeveloper by default creates this file in the public_html\WEB-INF folder of the view controller project when you generate a Fusion Web application.

    The adfc-config.xml file may contain unbounded task flow activities, control flow rules for pages, and managed beans interacting to allow users to finish specific business functionalities. The IDE will generate a brand new adfc-configN.xml file (where N is a numeric value) for...