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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

Understanding Business Objects

A Business Object represents an object such as an employee, address, contact details, and so on. You can consider a Business Object like a table in a database having a different set of fields. Like a table, a Business Object contains a set of fields with structured data used for Visual Builder applications. Business Objects are stored in the database.

When you create a Business Object in Visual Builder, its structure and data are accessed via REST endpoints as Business Objects create the endpoints automatically. Business Objects are reusable components and once created, they can be used in multiple web or mobile applications simultaneously.

When a Visual Builder application is created, then only Business Objects can be created under that application.

Working with Business Objects

In order to create a Business Object, a VB application must exist. Once an application is created, open it, and click on the Business Objects pane from the application...