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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 8. Build and Deploy

Your application is done with functionalities and the necessary security features have been applied. As you have seen many times through out the book, you can deploy your application from JDeveloper directly to the GlassFish server.

However, in a professional software development setting, you will typically want this process to be automated and not dependent on a developer having to perform a manual procedure in the development environment.

After each cycle of test and rework, you need to create a new deliverable package until it passes all tests. Then, the same package goes to the operations staff to install in the pre-production or production environment. In case your package does not install cleanly on this environment, you go back to the drawing board, fix the code or the documentation, and create a new package.

One tool for build automation is Apache Ant (http://ant.apache.org). This open source tool is included with JDeveloper (in the jdeveloper\ant subdirectory...