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Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development - Made Simple

By : Sten E. Vesterli
Book Image

Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development - Made Simple

By: Sten E. Vesterli

Overview of this book

<p>With Application Development Framework (ADF), Oracle gives you the tool its own developers use. Modern enterprise applications must be user-friendly, visually attractive, and fast performing and Oracle Fusion Applications are just that; but to get the desired output you need proven methods to use this powerful and flexible tool to achieve success in developing your enterprise applications.</p> <p>Just as you need to know more than how to wield a hammer to build a house, you need more than knowing ADF to build a successful enterprise application. This book explains how to use the technology, create a blueprint, and organize your work to ensure success.</p> <p>This book takes you through an entire enterprise application development project using ADF. The book begins with a proof of concept, demonstrating the basics of the ADF technology, and then moves on to estimating the effort. You will then learn the necessary skills required to structure your project, your code, and how to build a successful enterprise project with ADF.</p> <p>Additional topics allow you to explore the support tools required for source control and issue tracking, learn to integrate them into your development environment, and use them productively to develop an enterprise application. Out-of-the-box functionalities such as skinning, customization, and internationalization are discussed at length.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development—Made Simple
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you have seen how ADF uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for defining the appearance of components without affecting their functionality. For changing the look of an individual component, you can use inline styles, content styles, and style classes.

If you want to customize the look of the entire application, you define a skin. This used to be difficult and complex, but with the skin editor available both integrated in JDeveloper and as a stand-alone product, this has become much easier. You have a tree navigator for selecting components, you can use the Property Inspector to change settings and immediately see what your component will look like. Your final skin can include both global changes affecting the whole application, including the color scheme, and visual changes that affect only one specific component or even just one aspect of it.

When you are done with your application skin, you can deploy it as an ADF library using the normal procedures for working with...