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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, you learned various best practices and recommendations for developing web and mobile applications, Business Objects, and Service Connections. You learned what the recommendation is when it comes to using Action Chains, and how you should maintain the values' environment-specific data. You also learned how the Run in parallel action will help to enhance performance and about caching the data for the Select (Single) component. You learned about the benefits of using application profiles, how the application can be optimized, why deprecated components should not be used, and using meaningful names to make debugging easier.

You learned about various best practices and recommendations for using Business Objects. You learned how a small option, the Contains Application Setup Data option of the Business Object, can help when you migrate the application, and you learned about out-of-the-box data validation and calculation on the field's level, as well...