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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

Starting the example application


Through out this book, we will be building a small application based on the Sakila MySQL demo database, which contains data objects for a chain of DVD rental stores.

If you want to follow along in JDeveloper as you read, create a new application using the Fusion Web Application template. Navigate to File | New to bring up the New Gallery dialog box and in this dialog, navigate to Applications | Fusion Web Application (ADF).

In step 1 of the wizard, name your application something like RentalApp and provide an application package prefix that makes sense to you –– if you work for company.com, you could use com.company.adfdemo.

Tip

When working through the examples, in this book you can either use the exact example names or modify the names of objects, classes, methods, and so on, slightly from what the book says. If you use the suggested names, you will get through the examples quicker. If you change the names, you will experience some errors as you go along, so...