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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

Enabling client-side validation on forms

Client-side validation is one of the most important things in each and every web or mobile application; it helps to validate the data on the client side before a request is sent to the server. In this section, we'll look at how to validate a form on the client side using JavaScript.

In this section, we'll create a web form to onboard a new employee and will apply client-side validation before we save the data in a Business Object.

The following are the high-level steps to execute this use case:

  1. Create a web form.
  2. Create JavaScript to validate the web form.
  3. Implement the logic to validate the form and insert data into the Business Object.

We'll look at the preceding steps in detail in the upcoming sections.

Creating a new web form

The following are the steps to create a new web form:

  1. Create a new page with the main-onboard-employee Page ID under the chapter7 web application.
  2. Create...