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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 and modifying a Business Object

Business Objects are used to store transactional data of your application and interactions with Business Objects happen via REST APIs. You cannot use SQL to access the BO; however, you can use the q parameter to query the data that is exposed by BO GET REST APIs.

The following sections will help you to create new Business Objects, add custom fields into them, add a formula field, and show you how to create relationships between Business Objects.

Creating a Business Object

In order to create a new Business Object, a VB application must exist. Refer to Chapter3, Exploring Visual Builder Ingredients, under the Creating a VB application section to learn how to create a VB application. We'll use the same application to create a new Business Object.

The following are the steps to create a new Business Object:

  1. Click on the Business Object icon from the left-side navigator of the application.
  2. Click on the + button and select...