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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

Configuring a connection to a process server

When you create a VB application that uses the business process, VB sets up a default process server configuration. The following are the steps to view all the default process servers and to configure the process server:

  1. Click the Services tab from the application navigator, and go to the Backends tab.
  2. Then, click on Process Applications and go to the Servers tab. You'll see a Process Server, which in development mode and is configured to point to a test environment of the Oracle Process Cloud Service instance as per the following screenshot:
    Figure 10.11 – Default process server

    Figure 10.11 – Default process server

    When you register any process under the Processes tab or you use a Process Quick Start, the Tenant settings will be overridden and one more Player Target Server will be visible under the Process Applications backend as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 10.12 – Player Target Server

    Figure 10.12 – Player Target Server

  3. The target server is set up under Application...