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Oracle JET for Developers

By : Raja Malleswara Rao Malleswara Rao Pattamsetti
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Oracle JET for Developers

By: Raja Malleswara Rao Malleswara Rao Pattamsetti

Overview of this book

This book will give you a complete practical understanding of the Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) and how you can use it to develop efficient client-side applications with ease. It will tell you how to get your own customized Oracle JET set up. You'll start with individual libraries, such as jQuery, Cordova, and Require.js. You'll also get to work with the JavaScript libraries created by Oracle, especially for cloud developers. You'll use these tools to create a working backend application with these libraries. Using the latest Oracle Alta UI, you'll develop a state-of-the-art backend for your cloud applications. You'll learn how to develop and integrate the different cloud services required for your application and use other third-party libraries to get more features from your cloud applications. Toward the end of the book, you'll learn how to manage and secure your cloud applications, and test them to ensure seamless deployment.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Data bindings


Data bindings are attributes added by the framework for the purpose of data access between elements and view scope. While Observable arrays are efficient in accessing the list of objects with the number of operations on top of the display of the list using the foreach function, Knockout.js has provided three additional data binding abilities:

  • Control-flow bindings
  • Appearance bindings
  • Interactive bindings

Let us review these data bindings in detail in the following sections.

Control-flow bindings

As the name suggests, control-flow bindings help us access the data elements based on a certain condition. The if, if-not, and with are the control-flow bindings available from the Knockout.js.

In the following example, we will be using if and with control-flow bindings. We have added a new attribute to the Employee object called age; we are displaying the age value in green only if it is greater than 20. Similarly, we have added another markedEmployee. By this, with control-flow binding,...