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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

Creating a simple application in ADF


Till now we have been focusing on the architecture; now let us see how ADF development is carried out in a typical web application development environment.

ADF development practice

ADF web application development is classified into two sections—the Business Service development and the UI development. Both these sections can be developed independently, but the development of either of the sections is followed by the development of the other.

The following is a brief description of the two sections:

  • Business Service development: This section includes the development of objects in the business service layer, which sits on top of the data source. Most of the development is declarative to help the developer concentrate more on the business logic.

  • UI development: The development of UI pages along with task flow creation for reusability comprises the UI phase. The UI development makes use of rich UI components to create a modern, attractive user interface. The...