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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

Exploring Service Connections

Whenever you have a requirement to call external REST APIs, Service Connections play an important role in helping you to build a connection with those REST APIs. The Service Connection is one of the main components of VB that helps you to communicate with external applications using REST APIs.

A Service Connection specifies the connection to a REST service, including the service URLs, authentication details, and the payload.

Like Business Objects, Service Connections are also reusable components and once created can be used in multiple web or mobile applications simultaneously. These are not specific to any application.

The following subsections help you to understand various options to create a Service Connection.

Various options to create a Service Connection

In order to create a Service Connection, a VB application must exist. Once an application is created, click on the Services pane from the application navigator. The Service Connection...