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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

Data Controls palette


The Data Controls palette is the component in the IDE that exposes the available application module as a data control layer within the application. In our EmpDirectoryApplication application, we have two application modules registered in the Model.jpx file as highlighted in the following screenshot:

The Data Controls palette will have the components explained in the following section.

Data control

The available application module is displayed as a data control layer in the palette. The data control layer is a metadata definition that translates the API of the specific business service implementation to a generic format allowing declarative and consistent development. A user cannot drag-and-drop this component to the page because of the reason stated in the previous section.

The view object collection

The view object instance that is added to the application module is displayed as the view object collection in the Data Controls palette. All the available attributes in the...