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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 5: Creating and Managing Service Connections

In the previous chapter, you learned about Business Objects, how to create and modify Business Objects, add formula fields, add relationships between Business Objects, create different business rules, and manage Business Object data. You explored various Business Object endpoints, how to use them, and how to switch embedded VB databases to point to the ATP database.

This chapter will focus on Service Connections, which is one of the main components that help us to call external REST APIs. Refer to Chapter 3, Exploring Visual Builder Ingredients, under the Exploring Service Connections section, to learn about Service Connections where we have explained this in detail. In this chapter, you will learn how to create Service Connections, manage Service Connections, and how to consume different types of REST API.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Managing backends in visual applications
  • Creating application...