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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

Debugging in JDeveloper


As you have already noticed, deploying the application on the built-in WebLogic server is much faster than deploying it to GlassFish. That's why you'll want to develop and debug your application on WebLogic and occasionally deploy it for testing on GlassFish. In theory, your ADF Essentials application is just a JEE application like any other—so, if it runs on WebLogic, it should run on GlassFish. In practice, you'll want to make sure it does run on GlassFish.

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Automated deployment

It is a good idea to develop an automated build of the application. If you combine this with a continuous integration tool like Hudson/Jenkins, you can set up an automatic build and deploy to GlassFish to run once a day. That will enable you to check that the code you develop on WebLogic can also be deployed on GlassFish. If you add some simple UI testing to your automated build script, you can even verify that your code actually runs on GlassFish.

Debugging code

In order to debug your application...