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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 page


To display the content of the model layer, we will have to create the page that holds the model layer information bound using the page definition file. We can create a page without the page definition to bind the data to the model layer by just adding static content to the page. We can include the layout information and design the page that will suit the web application context.

EmpDirectoryApplication has the index.jspx page to display the EMP table information. As the index.jspx page is the landing page for our web application, we will move the employee information to a separate page named employee.jspx. In this way, we have our information separated from the landing page. Categorizing the content of the page is important in creating a web-based application. We will have a layout designed for our index.jspx page. The page creation for the DEPT table is similar to that of the EMP table. We will have the department information displayed in the dept.jspx page. Therefore, we...