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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

Oracle JET components


As a framework, Oracle JET offers several components with patterns and utility functions. To associate the state to these components, they wrap over the jQuery UI widgets including methods and events. This lets the components benefit from the two-way binding feature from Knockout.js, as discussed in the previous chapter. However, the Oracle JET components adopt only limited and required sets of jQuery UI modules.

Oracle JET components are developed by extending the simple HTML components. Out of the following listed Oracle JET components, some of the simple components, such as ojInputText and ojTable, extend a single HTML component such as input and table, while a few other components are developed by extending more than one HTML component, such as ojButton, which extends multiple HTML components: input, div, and button.

Oracle JET components share a common functionality by providing support for methods such as getNodebySubId(), getSubIdByNode(), getContextByNode(), and...