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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

Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Business Objects

In the previous chapter, we learned about various VB building blocks such as Business Objects, Service Connections, Events, Action Chains, and so on. This chapter is dedicated to exploring the functionality of Business Objects, how to create them, how to establish a relationship between Business Objects, various business rules, and Business Object REST APIs.

Once you understand how to create a Business Object and how different options that make up the Business Object work together, one of the useful components for a web or mobile application, then you will be able to easily use them. Business Objects are reusable components and once created, they can be used in multiple web or mobile applications.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating and modifying a Business Object
  • Creating business rules in a Business Object
  • Managing Business Object data
  • Exploring Business Object REST APIs
  • Switching...