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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 mobile tools


Mobile tools are the sets of software required to develop hybrid mobile applications. Oracle JET provides hybrid mobile application development support using Cordova. We need to install mobile tools specific to the operating system after confirming that we have the prerequisite software (installed in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Oracle JET), including npm, Node.js, Grunt, Bower, and Yeoman. In this section, let's review the important software for hybrid mobile application development with Oracle JET.

Cordova

While there are a number of mobile development frameworks, one of the popular open source frameworks is Apache Cordova, which supports the usage of standard web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build applications supporting multiple platforms. This is achieved by delivering the applications in container wrapping, matching the target platforms with APIs that support native device features and content.

The following is the Apache Cordova application...