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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

Creating a project in VB Studio

In this section, we'll create a VB Studio project with a default Git repository. VB Studio allows you to create a VB application too. A project in VB Studio is a collection of various resources required to complete the lifecycle of an application.

The following are the steps to create a project in VB Studio:

  1. Log into VB Studio. Then, from the Organization page, click on the + Create button as per the following screenshot:
    Figure 16.8 – Create the VB Studio project

    Figure 16.8 – Create the VB Studio project

  2. From the opened New Project dialog box, enter the details as per the following table, and click on the Next button:
    Table 16.1 – Values to configure a project

    Table 16.1 – Values to configure a project

  3. The next page allows you to select the project template. Select Initial Repository as per the following screenshot and click on the Next button:
    Figure 16.9 – Select a project template

    Figure 16.9 – Select a project template

  4. From the next screen, select the Initialize repository with README file option under the Project Properties...