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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

Adding logic to business components


As you saw in Chapter 2, Creating Business Services, by default, a business component does not have an explicit Java class. When you want to add Java logic, however, you generate the relevant Java class from the Java tab of the business component.

On the Java tab, you also decide which of your methods are to be made available to other objects by choosing to implement a Client Interface. Methods that implement a client interface show up in the Data Control palette and can be called from outside the object.

Logic in entity objects

Remember from Chapter 2, Creating Business Services, that entity objects are closest to your database tables –– most often, you will have one entity object for every table in the database. This makes the entity object a good place to put data logic that must be always executed. If you place, for example, validation logic in an entity object, it will be applied no matter which view object attempts to change data.

Note

In the database...