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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

Creating an extension


ADF allows you to create an extension or a plugin that will work with JDeveloper 11gR2. For example, we might create a plugin in JDeveloper that will allow the user to open the Model or ViewController project file in Notepad.

The extension development is based on a standard called Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGI). More information about OSGI can be found at http://www.osgi.org/Main/HomePage.

You can download the Extension SDK from Oracle by going to Help | Check for Updates. The URL to download the Extension SDK is as follows:

http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/@otn/documents/webcontent/131167.xml#oracle.jdeveloper.esdk

The Extension SDK API URL is as follows:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16162_01/apirefs.1112/e17493/toc.htm

The extension.xml file

The extension.xml file is the backbone for all extensions that are added to the JDeveloper IDE. All the extension information is defined in this file. Now we will see how to create a basic extension project and run...