Sometimes when you build your application pages, it can become very complex and hard to edit and maintain, while other pages may always contain a specific number of components that have the same structure and layout. Sometimes, you just want to share some parts of a page or entire pages with other developers in your team. Then there are times when you have a change in the UI. In these cases, you might end up replicating your changes in many places and pages.

Building and maintaining these changes can be a very tedious and troublesome process. ADF provides great reusability of your ADF Faces resources such as task flows, data controls, ADF task flow template, ADF page template, skins, and declarative components.

In this chapter, we will see how to optimize everything for reuse instead of recreating your skins every time in every project. It should be created once and applied everywhere so that when a change happens to the skin, every application that uses it gets effected.

You can...