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Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide

By : Vinod Thatheri Krishnan
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Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide

By: Vinod Thatheri Krishnan

Overview of this book

Oracle ADF is an end-to-end framework which makes application development simple by providing infrastructure services as well as visual and declarative development right away. "Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide" guides any user with programming skills to be able to quickly learn the options and ways to develop rich Internet applications using ADF 11gR2. Containing all the skills that a new user has to use to build an application in ADF 11gR2, this book is designed in such a way so that it enhances the practical feel of developing applications in ADF 11gR2. Starting with the installation and configuration of Oracle ADF 11g RD we will then work through topics such as working with the Model Layer and Model Data followed by displaying and binding the data. Later we will look at Navigations and Flows within applications as well as their layout, look, and feel. "Oracle ADF 11g R2 Development Beginner's Guide" will conclude with us looking at the security and deployment of the applications which have been created.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Complex task flows


Some of the complex and advanced features of the task flow are discussed in the following sections:

  • Trains: One of the reasons for using a task flow is that an ADF task flow allows the user to add trains to a web application, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Each of the page fragments is added as a train stop and is linearly linked to provide a wizard-like feature in the web page. Checking the train option for the task flow will enable the task flow to support train stops. One common expression used with the train is as follows:

    #{controllerContext.currentViewPort.taskFlowContext.trainModel.getNext}"
    #{controllerContext.currentViewPort.taskFlowContext.trainModel.getPrevious}"
  • Template: The task flow template is another useful feature that will enable the task flow to behave like a template, to add and support other task flows. A base task flow template is created for a repeated process and then it is reused by the consuming task flow to build a complex task flow.

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