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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

Working with an application module


So far our discussions were more focused on the various declarative configuration options available for an application module. In this section, we will be discussing programmatic options and APIs available on an application module to deal with more complex business use cases.

Exposing the business service method through data control

If the declarative features are not enough to meet the use cases, then you can add custom business methods in the middle tier. ADF has design time support for exposing custom business methods from both view object and application module implementation classes through data control for use by the client.

To expose the methods defined in the application module (or view object) implementation class through data control, perform the following steps:

  1. Double-click on the application module (or view object) in the model project.

  2. In the overview editor, select the Java tab. On the Java Classes page click on the yellow edit icon corresponding...