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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 7. Working with Navigation Flows

Many of the web applications that are available in the market involve complex tasks and approval processes to provide a secure way of controlling the navigation between web pages. For example, imagine you are in an online bookstore and you want to check out a book. The lists of options available to you are to log in to your account, browse through the books available, add to the shopping cart, and then check out the product. There are four separate flows involved in this process to buy a product. Each flow is individual and has a specific entry and exit points. ADF controller introduces the concept of task flows to simplify the navigation and to reuse the flows for any number of times.

In this chapter, we will learn about:

  • Task flows

  • Control flows and activities

  • Task flow parameters

  • The ADF lifecycle