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Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide

By : Vinod Thatheri Krishnan
Book Image

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

Time for action – passing parameters to a task flow


Let us see how to pass a parameter to createDepartmentFlow from the createEmployeeFlow bounded task flow:

  1. Go inside createDepartmentFlow in the ViewController project of EmpDirectoryApplication.

  2. Click on the Overview tab and select the Parameters section from the left-hand side.

  3. Click on the + icon to add a parameter in the Input Parameter Definitions section.

  4. Provide the Name as deptIdParam and tab out of the Name column. The Value section will be auto populated with #{pageFlowScope. deptIdParam}.

  5. Provide java.lang.String in the Class column to define that the parameter that we are passing will be of a String type.

  6. Select the Required option to make the parameter as the required value for the task flow. The task flow will expect the parameter to be populated or user to provide a value when the task flow is used as a region in a page fragment.

  7. Now go back to createEmployeeFlow and select the createDepartmentFlow task flow call.

  8. In the Parameter...