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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

Options for the business components


Now that we understand how to create the business components, let's dive deeper into each and every component and look for the options available for each of these components. Some of the options explained in this section are a part of the advanced topics and will be explained in detail in Chapter 11, Advanced Features of ADF.

Let us analyze the business components options briefly.

Entity object

The options for an entity object are changed in the Overview tab. Some settings related to attributes can be changed using the Property Inspector window. Let us explore the options under the entity object.

General

Some general settings for the entity object are as follows:

  • Name: This section displays the name of the entity object. This section is editable, and changing the name will affect all the artifacts related to the entity object.

  • Package: This section displays the package for the entity object. The pencil icon next to the option will help to change or refactor...