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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 a Service Connection using an inbuilt catalog

Creating a Service Connection using the Catalog option allows you to choose the available APIs from Oracle Cloud Applications, Oracle Integration, or Custom backend.

Before you use any of these options, the backends must be added at tenant or application level.

The catalog option saves you time when it comes to creating a Service Connection as the common properties are already added in the backend and it's a one-time activity. Once the backends are added, you can use any one of the available APIs from the backends (Oracle Cloud Applications, Oracle Integration, or custom).

Creating a Service Connection with Integration Cloud

In order to create a Service Connection using Integration Cloud, make sure that the Integration Applications backend is added under the Settings section of the VB.

The following are the steps to create a Service Connection with Integration Cloud:

  1. Open the existing VB application...