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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 data bound table UIs


The table UI is one of the very popular UI components for presenting a collection of rows to end users. In general, displaying data collection on a table UI involves the following tasks:

  • Invoking business services for reading data collection

  • Populating the UI with retrieved collection

The data bound UI table offered by the Oracle ADF framework does the above tasks out of the box. The steps for building a data bound table are as follows:

  1. Drag the view object instance from the Data Controls panel and drop it on the visual designer for the page. Doing so displays a context menu with a list of possible UI components to display the data collection.

  2. Select Table | ADF Table in the context menu.

  3. In the Edit Table Columns dialog window, specify the Row Selection, Sorting, and Filtering properties. The editor also allows you to add, remove, group, or rearrange columns, and alter the default display label, value binding, and display component for columns. Click on OK to save...