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Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide

By : Jobinesh Purushothaman
Book Image

Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide

By: Jobinesh Purushothaman

Overview of this book

Oracle ADF in combination with JDeveloper IDE offers visual and declarative approaches to enterprise application development. This book will teach you to build scalable rich enterprise applications using the ADF Framework, with the help of many real world examples. Oracle ADF is a powerful application framework for building next generation enterprise applications. The book is a practical guide for the ADF framework and discusses how to use Oracle ADF for building rich enterprise applications. "Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide" discusses ADF framework in detail. This book contains a lot of real life examples which will help developers to design and develop successful enterprise applications. This book starts off by introducing the development environment and JDeveloper design time features. As you read forward, you will learn to build a full stack enterprise application using ADF. You will learn how to build business services using ADF, enable validation for the data model, declaratively build user interfaces for business service and enable security across application layers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using a train component in a bounded task flow


A typical web application may have some business transactions that span across multiple pages and take a sequential path to complete. Most of the rich enterprise applications provide visual indicators pointing to the current step when the user navigates around different activities in a multi-step process.

ADF Faces provides an af:train component to display a series of stops in a multi-step process. Each train stop displayed in the train component represents an activity in a multi-step process flow. The following is an example for an af:train component display at runtime:

Tip

To learn more about the af:train component, refer to the tag documentation available online at http://jdevadf.oracle.com/adf-richclient-demo/docs/tagdoc/af_train.html.

Creating a train in a bounded task flow

You can enable train stops for activities in a bounded task flow in the following two ways:

  • Enabling train support while creating a bounded task flow: When you create bounded...