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Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide

By : Vinod Thatheri Krishnan
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Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide

By: Vinod Thatheri Krishnan

Overview of this book

Oracle ADF is an end-to-end framework which makes application development simple by providing infrastructure services as well as visual and declarative development right away. "Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide" guides any user with programming skills to be able to quickly learn the options and ways to develop rich Internet applications using ADF 11gR2. Containing all the skills that a new user has to use to build an application in ADF 11gR2, this book is designed in such a way so that it enhances the practical feel of developing applications in ADF 11gR2. Starting with the installation and configuration of Oracle ADF 11g RD we will then work through topics such as working with the Model Layer and Model Data followed by displaying and binding the data. Later we will look at Navigations and Flows within applications as well as their layout, look, and feel. "Oracle ADF 11g R2 Development Beginner's Guide" will conclude with us looking at the security and deployment of the applications which have been created.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Complex data controls


In our previous chapters, we have seen the usage of basic data controls that are used to provide an interface between the model layer and the UI layer. There are other data controls that ADF supports for integration and interoperability. All these data controls are created by going to New Gallery | Data Control. The following are some of these data controls:

  • URL data control: We can create a data control that is based on a URL. Basically, we can have an Excel spreadsheet uploaded in a URL, and based on the information in this spreadsheet it is possible to create a data control in ADF. Files other than Excel spreadsheets that are supported are XML and REST services.

  • Web service data control: In ADF, it is possible to create a data control based on the WSDL information of a web service running on a server. The service definition is provided to define a data source for the data control.

  • Java and EJB data control: JavaBeans can be converted to a data control by simply right...