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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

Time for action – creating the layout for the page


  1. We will add a link in the navigation facet which will display horizontal links. For this, we will add the af:panelGroupLayout component to the page with the layout as vertical. This can be configured in the property inspector.

  2. Most of the time, the components are added to the page using the Structure window by right-clicking on the container icon or the section of the page and inserting the component. You may also use the Component palette to drag-and-drop the component directly onto the page.

  3. Now add two links to the page and change their name to Employee information and Directory information. These are the text messages that will be displayed for the links.

  4. You may notice that for each component added to the page, the backing bean is updated with the references to bind the component reference to the bean. You will have to run the page each time to see the changes you have made.

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