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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

Accessing the VB instance

There are two ways to access the VB instance. You can use the VB instance management page or directly use the VB link to access Visual Builder. We will discuss each in the next sections.

Accessing VB via the Visual Builder instance page

For this, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to the Oracle Cloud dashboard.
  2. Click on the hamburger menu, expand Platform Services, and click on Visual Builder.
  3. Click on the action menu to the right of the Visual Builder instance name and click on Open Visual Builder Home Page, as shown:
Figure 2.12 – Open to log in to Visual Builder

Figure 2.12 – Open to log in to Visual Builder

This action will take you to the Visual Builder home page.

Accessing VB using a direct URL

If you already know the Visual Builder URL, you can directly paste the URL into the browser and enter the login details. This is how a VB URL is structured: https://<vbcs_instane_name>-<cloud_account_name>.builder...