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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

Example application


The rest of this chapter illustrates the preceding concepts by showing how to re-build the example DVD rental application in a proper enterprise application structure. Naturally, the descriptions are going to be somewhat less detailed—if you need the detailed instructions on how to build a specific part of the application, refer to the previous chapters. For brevity, this chapter will give explicit directions for package names, directories, and so on.

Conceptually, we are cutting the existing application up into five parts—in practice, we will be building five new application workspaces.

Tip

There are all kinds of complicated interdependencies in ADF projects. It is theoretically possible to make five copies of the existing application and delete various parts from each, but in practice, it will take more time to fix all the broken references than simply building everything again.

Creating the Master Application Workspace

As you saw earlier, we need a Master Workspace to...