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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

ADF model layer


The ADF model layer is the architectural element that will allow the UI layer to interact with the data layer. The model layer is responsible for providing the key business services that are available in the view layer. The information is bound to the UI component with the help of the bindings defined in the page definition file. The PageDef file that is created for each ADF bound view holds the binding definition for the view's UI components to query data from the business service. The following screenshot explains the relationship between the UI page and the page definition file. Here we can see that the Empno column in the UI is mapped to the Empno attribute exposed from the EmpVO1 entity through the Data controls pane. The table data displayed in the UI uses the collection model of the EmpVO1 collection binding. Collection Model is the object that holds the collection of rows returned from the VO query in the row set. The binding will make use of the EmpVO1Iterator module...