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Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder

By : Ankur Jain
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Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder

By: Ankur Jain

Overview of this book

Organizations are moving their applications, data, and processes to the cloud to reduce application costs, effort, and maintenance. However, adopting new technology poses challenges for developers, solutions architects, and designers due to a lack of knowledge and appropriate practical training resources. This book helps you get to grips with Oracle Visual Builder (VB) and enables you to quickly develop web and mobile applications and deploy them to production without hassle. This book will provide you with a solid understanding of VB so that you can adopt it at a faster pace and start building applications right away. After working with real-time examples to learn about VB, you'll discover how to design, develop, and deploy web and mobile applications quickly. You'll cover all the VB components in-depth, including web and mobile application development, business objects, and service connections. In order to use all these components, you'll also explore best practices, security, and recommendations, which are well explained within the chapters. Finally, this book will help you gain the knowledge you need to enhance the performance of an application before deploying it to production. By the end of this book, you will be able to work independently and deploy your VB applications efficiently and with confidence.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exploring the Building Blocks of VB
5
Section 2: Working with Data and Services
10
Section 3: Building Web and Mobile Apps Using Various VB Components
15
Section 4: Security, Recommendations, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about new visual components such as Dialog, Checkbox Set, and List View, and different visual components such as bar, pie, and area charts. You learned how to create a table to update the records inline and save the modified records into a Business Object. You learned about the advanced functionalities of table components, such as enabling/disabling sorting, how to allow a column width to resize, using the filter criteria of SDP to filter data based on different criteria, and how to load records when you scroll down a table.

You learned how to use the dialog component and how to open and close it using the Call Component action of the Action Chain. You learned about the Checkbox Set component and created checkboxes using static and dynamic data. Along with this, we learned about the different options of the class property, which will allow you to render checkboxes in a different view.

You learned how to use the List View component, populate...