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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

Building pages


With the task flows defined, we are done with the controller layer in our model-view-controller architecture. The next layer we will work on is the view layer.

Using templates

Just like you created a task flow template before you built the first task flow, you should create templates for your pages and page fragments. Page and page fragment templates are always referenced (never copied), so any change you make to a page template will affect all pages based on the template. For now, we will build the templates in the RentalView project—in Chapter 5, Building Enterprise Applications, we'll see how templates can be kept in their own library in an enterprise application.

Your application will have both a page template and a page fragment template as shown in the following diagram:

The page is based on the page template and contains task flows with page fragments. Each fragment is based on a separate page fragment template.

Facet definitions

In JSF terminology, a facet is a place where...