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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

Application module


Now we have two view objects with all the data we need and we have defined the connection between them. The final business component we need to create is an Application Module. Navigate to File | New | Business Tier | ADF Business Components | Application Module to start the Create Application Module wizard:

  1. In step 1 of the wizard, give the application module a meaningful name (for example, RentalService).

  2. In step 2, expand the .view node to see your two view objects. First click on CustomerVO on the left. In the New View Instance field under the list of available view objects, change the name to CustomerSearchResult as shown in the following screenshot:

    • Click on the > button to create a view object instance in the right-hand box.

    • Then expand the CustomerVO node to the left to see the node RentalVO via CustomerRentalLink. Select this node and give it the name RentalUnreturned in the New View Instance field, and then shuttle it to the right. It should appear under the CustomerSearchResult...