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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By : Pete Wang
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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By: Pete Wang

Overview of this book

An integral component of Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) ultimately empowers business executives to react quickly to changing business situations. BAM enables business service and process monitoring through real-time data streaming and operational reports, and this book helps you to take advantage of this vital tool with best practice guidance for building a BAM project."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is an essential companion for advancing your BAM knowledge, with troubleshooting and performance tuning tips to guide you in building BAM applications. The book uses step-by-step instructions alongside a real world demo project to steer you through the pitfalls of report and application development. Packed with best practices, you'll learn about BAM migration, HA configuration and much more."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" comprises a myriad of best practices for building real-time operational dashboards, reports and alerts. The book dives straight into the architecture of Oracle BAM 11g, before moving swiftly onto concepts like managing BAM server securities, populating Data Objects and performing load testing. Later on you'll also learn about BAM migration and building an ADF-based report, plus much more that you won't want to miss. For focusing in on best practices for this integral tool within Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, "Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is the perfect guide for the job.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 10. Building your Reports Using ADF

In previous chapters, you learned the technologies for building a report using the Active Viewer. However, these views can only be rendered in Internet Explorer, as it requires IE-specific XML and Active Data processing. BAM 11g provides a preview feature that allows users to create ADF-based views. Once these views are deployed to an Application Server, they can be accessed using any web browsers.

In this chapter, you will learn how to create your report using ADF.

ADF — an overview

Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) is a framework that implements the MVC design pattern. Oracle ADF builds on the latest Java EE standards and various open source technologies, to standardize and simplify enterprise application development.

The high-level ADF architect is as follows:

This multi-layer architecture contains the following components:

  • ADF Business Services: This layer provides business logics and interfaces for interacting with backend information...