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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

Provisioning VB Studio

In this section, we'll look at how to provision VB Studio. In order to use VB Studio, you have to provision a VB Studio instance as you provision other instances such as OIC, VB, and so on. You can only provision one VB Studio instance per Oracle Cloud account.

In order to provision a VB Studio instance, you should have the admin privileges to create resources in Oracle Cloud. The following are the steps to provision a VB Studio instance:

  1. Log into the Oracle Cloud dashboard using a unique cloud account name and enter the credentials on the login page. Upon successful login, you will land on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) dashboard.
  2. From the dashboard, click on the hamburger menu in the top-left corner of the screen. Expand Platform Services and click on the Developer option, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Figure 16.3 – The Developer option on the OCI page

    Figure 16.3 – The Developer option on the OCI page

    This action will take you to the VB Studio page.

  3. Then, click on...