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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

Extending an Oracle Cloud application

Extending Oracle Cloud applications using VB is a common requirement. VB provides a built-in catalog that allows us to interact with the Oracle Cloud application directly with the help of their REST APIs.

In this section, we'll create a feedback nomination application from where Oracle Cloud application customers can be nominated for their feedback. We'll show all the customers (accounts) from the Oracle Cloud application and allow these to be modified as well.

Important Note:

In order to execute this use case, the Oracle Cloud application backend must be added. If it has not been added already, please do so. Refer to Chapter 5, Creating and Managing Service Connections, under the Managing Backends in the Visual Applications section, to learn how to add a backend.

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