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Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide

By : Vinod Thatheri Krishnan
Book Image

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

Creating the bindings manually


As we know, bindings can be created in the page definition file by dragging and dropping the binding data onto the page from the data control layer. However, sometimes we have to create the bindings manually just to access the underlying data programmatically. In this case, the option available to the user is to create the bindings using the Add option in the bindings section, and selecting the Generic Bindings category in the Insert Item window.

The bindings items available for users are are as follows:

  • action: The action item is used to bind the operations available from the ADF model layer. The Data Controls palette will expose the methods from the view object collection or the application module, which can be mapped to the action item in the page definitions. Some common actions are Commit, Rollback, Create, and so on. These items are used commonly in the actionListener property of the ADF Button component to execute the actions such as #{bindings.Commit...