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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

Chapter 3. Understanding the Model Layer

In the previous chapter, we had an overview of the framework in action. We created a sample application using the ADF components and ran it successfully. Isn't it easy to develop a complete application in this way? The answer is most probably yes, because we hardly wrote any code and yet we had a complete, working web application.

So what's next? We will dig deeper into the ADF business components to know more about the capabilities of the framework in the real world. ADF business components will help the developers to reduce the time taken to build objects for communicating with the database and manipulating the records. These components are also responsible for maintaining and managing the transactions efficiently.

In this chapter, we will learn the following:

  • About different business components

  • How these components are interrelated

  • How the components work

  • Options available in each of the components