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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

Learning about APIs


Until now, we have seen the declarative power of ADF business components. Now we will see its programming capabilities and how ADF can leverage complex business scenarios using the Java API.

From all of the ADF components available, only the entity object, view object, and application module will allow the user to generate and extend the Java API. Every class created for the business components will extend the parent class, which will take care of the logic of an entire complex framework.

Generating an entity implementation class

Generating a Java API for a business component is a straightforward task. Most of the time, the user is given an option to generate the Java API while creating the entity object, view object, or an application module. If the user skips this step, we can add the API for the business components from the Java tab.

Java classes in entity objects

An entity object will allow you to generate three types of Java classes. Each of these APIs is separated to...