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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 VB application

A VB application is the starting point of web and mobile applications. It is a superset of multiple web and mobile applications. A visual application can have multiple web and mobile applications.

In order to create a new VB application, navigate to the All Application tab from the Visual Builder home page and click on the New button. Once you click on the New button, the Create Application dialog box will open.

Enter the details as follows, and then click on the Finish button:

  • Application Name: Enter a unique application name.
  • Application ID: The application ID represents the context path of the application. This will be populated automatically based on Application Name; however, you can modify it. It should be unique across all VB applications.
  • Description: Enter a description of the application optionally.
  • Application Template: By default, this uses the Empty Application template; however, you can choose other templates (Oracle...