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Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials

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Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials

Overview of this book

With ADF, Oracle gives you the chance to use the powerful tool used by Oracle's own developers. Modern enterprise applications must be user-friendly, visually attractive, and fast performing. Oracle Fusion Applications are just that; but to get the desired output you need proven methods to use this powerful and flexible tool to achieve success in developing your enterprise applications. "Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials" explains all you need to know in order to build good-looking, user-friendly applications on a completely free technology stack. It explains the highly productive, declarative development approach that will literally have your application running within a few hours, as well as how to use Java to add business logic. "Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials" tells you how to develop and deploy web application applications based on the highly productive and free Oracle ADF Essentials framework. You will first learn how to build business services on top of database tables, and then how to easily build a web application using these services. You will see how to visually design the flow through your application with ADF task flows, and how to use Java programming to implement business logic. Using this book, you can start building and deploying advanced web applications on a robust, free platform quickly. Towards the end, you will be ready to build real-world ADF Essentials applications and will be able to consider yourself an ADF Essentials journeyman.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. My First ADF Essentials Application

In this chapter, we will install all the necessary (free!) software that we will be using throughout the book to build applications using Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF). We'll need:

  • A database

  • Java Development Kit and an application server

  • The Oracle ADF Essentials libraries

  • A development tool

For the purposes of this book, we will be using the popular and free MySQL database. However, you can run Oracle ADF Essentials applications on any other SQL database—so if you're a PostgreSQL fan, you don't have to change. You can also use commercial databases—Oracle is offering Oracle Database Express Edition if you are looking for a free version of an enterprise product.

Tip

Don't plan on running Oracle Database Express Edition directly on your development machine if it is 64-bit Windows—this is not supported and won't work. To run Oracle XE, you'll either need Linux, an old 32-bit Windows install, or run your database inside a 32-bit Windows virtual machine.

Similarly, you can run your ADF Essentials application on any JEE application server. This book will describe how to use GlassFish, but you could also use other open source JEE servers like JBoss or commercial offerings like Oracle WebLogic.

As our development tool, we will be using Oracle's preferred development tool, Oracle JDeveloper. This free tool is currently the only supported way of building Oracle ADF Essentials applications, but Oracle is working on supporting ADF Essentials as part of their Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE) product.

Tip

With Eclipse and Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, you can already build ADF applications for WebLogic. However, the tool does not yet support building applications for ADF Essentials.