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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

Building a bounded task flow


In this section, we will build a bounded task flow to get a feel for the visual and declarative features offered by JDeveloper IDE for building reusable end-to-end navigation cases. The steps for defining activities and navigation cases for a bounded task flow are conceptually similar to that of an unbounded task flow, which we discussed in the last chapter under the topic Building an unbounded task flow. However there are a few additions for a bounded task flow.

To define a bounded task flow, perform the following steps:

  1. Right-click on the view controller project in the application panel and then select New | ADF Task Flow in the context menu.

  2. In the Create Task Flow dialog window, enter the filename and directory for the task flow. You should make sure that the Create as Bounded Task Flow option is selected (this is selected by default) in the Create dialog window. Optionally modify the Default Task Flow ID property that is populated by the IDE. Select the...