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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

Best practices and recommendations for enhancing an app's performance

While developing any software in any technology, it is really important to follow best practices in order to deliver robust software. Regardless of the complexity of software, our aim should be to deliver the world's best software. Best practices increase productivity and enhance the performance of the application, which helps to increase adoption of the software.

We should always follow best practices, listed as follows, while developing the VB application. This will help you to rectify issues after delivering the applications:

  • Reusability of the Action Chain
  • Environment-specific values
  • Using the Run in parallel action
  • Caching the Select (Single) data
  • Regular restaging and republication
  • Using application profiles
  • Optimizing the application
  • Avoiding deprecated components
  • Meaningful names of actions and variables

In this section, we'll focus on the aforementioned...