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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

Working with bounded task flow activities


In this section we will take a closer look at the commonly used activities for a bounded task flow such as default activity, parent action, task flow call, task flow return, and exception handler.

Marking an activity as the default activity

The default activity is designated as an activity to run first (default entry point) in a bounded task flow. Based on the outcome of the default activity and control flow cases definitions, the framework chooses the next activity for execution.

By default, JDeveloper will mark the first activity that you added as the default activity. However you are allowed to modify the default activity at any time. To designate one of the activities as the default activity in a bounded task flow, right-click on the appropriate activity in the task flow diagram and select Mark Activity | Default Activity in the context menu. Note that you can mark any and only one activity in the task flow definition as the default activity.

Marking...