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Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide

By : Jobinesh Purushothaman
Book Image

Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide

By: Jobinesh Purushothaman

Overview of this book

Oracle ADF in combination with JDeveloper IDE offers visual and declarative approaches to enterprise application development. This book will teach you to build scalable rich enterprise applications using the ADF Framework, with the help of many real world examples. Oracle ADF is a powerful application framework for building next generation enterprise applications. The book is a practical guide for the ADF framework and discusses how to use Oracle ADF for building rich enterprise applications. "Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide" discusses ADF framework in detail. This book contains a lot of real life examples which will help developers to design and develop successful enterprise applications. This book starts off by introducing the development environment and JDeveloper design time features. As you read forward, you will learn to build a full stack enterprise application using ADF. You will learn how to build business services using ADF, enable validation for the data model, declaratively build user interfaces for business service and enable security across application layers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The properties of a bounded task flow


Let us begin now with the generic properties on bounded task flows and then later focus on more advanced features offered by the task flow to handle specific use case scenarios.

The ADF framework offers many configuration parameters for a bounded task flow. You can override the default values using the property inspector in the JDeveloper IDE as shown in the following screenshot:

The following are the configurable properties that you may see in a bounded task flow:

  • Initializer: This is a managed bean method that is invoked when a task flow starts execution. The value is specified using an EL expression.

  • Finalizer: This is a managed bean method that is invoked when a task flow exits. The value is specified using an EL expression.

  • Save Point Restore Finalizer: This is a managed bean method that is invoked when a task flow restores a save point. This is used for adding any custom method which is required to run after the execution of the framework code...