OracleAS 10g R3: Oracle ADF for Forms/4GL Developers

What you will learn:

• Develop web pages using JSF and ADF Faces
• Expose ADF BC applications as a web service
• Deploy applications to Oracle Application Server 10g

Audience:

• Java Developer
• Sales Consultants
• Technical Consultant
• Developer
• Forms Developer
• J2EE Developer

Prerequisites:

Required Prerequisites:

• OracleAS 10g R3: Java Programming

Suggested Prerequisites:

• Basic experience with Oracle JDeveloper 10g

Course Objectives:

• Build and customize the backend of an application with ADF BC
• Apply best practices for organizing Business Component projects
• Test business components using JDeveloper 10g Release 3
• Develop web pages using JSF and ADF Faces
• Expose ADF BC applications as a web service
• Deploy applications to Oracle Application Server 10g

Course Topics:

Oracle ADF Introduction and JDeveloper

• ADF architecture and its MVC relationship
• ADF Business Components: characteristics
• ADF Faces: characteristics
• ADF data binding

Defining the Application Pageflow

• The role of JSF and ADF Faces
• Creating JSF Pages
• Adding JSF navigation cases to the diagram
• Including notes and attachments to the diagram

Using ADF Faces Components

• UI components
• Page structure
• Rich Internet components
• UIResources file

Exploring ADF Business Components

• Using Database connections
• Creating applications, projects and applications
• Entity Objects
• View Objects
• Application Modules
• The ADF BC Browser (tester)
• Debugging business components using the tester
• Customize EO for Security

Developing Entity Objects

• Creating the data model using entity objects
• Defining attribute default values
• Refining the associations between entities
• Incorporating Validation in the data model
• Using custom properties
• Creating a Container to hold the data model (application module)
• Determining EO to table relationships – best practices

Presenting and Packaging the Data Model with View Objects

• Declaratively creating view objects
• Creating view objects using SQL statements
• Customizing Attribute Definitions
• Linking view objects
• Creating and passing parameter values

Managing Applications with Application Modules

• Components of an application module
• Nesting application modules
• Creating and exposing custom methods
• Modeling relationship types
• Renaming views and associations
• Expose Business Components as data controls
• Building efficient AMs and view objects – best practices

Binding UI Components to Data Sources

• Adding lookup view objects to the application module
• Utilizing ADF databinding
• Binding data using ADF
• Binding Editor
• Creating custom data controls

Developing a Simple Page with ADF Faces

• Creating the Page Outline
• Adding UI Components to the Page
• Creating the Edit and View Buttons
• Adding Command Buttons to the Page
• Running and Testing the Page

Creating a Master-Detail Page

• Creating the Data View
• Developing the Basic UI
• Adding the Master component as a Form
• Adding the Notes Panel
• Adding the Detail component as a Table
• Linking the Page to the Application

Implementing Transactional Capabilities

• Custom method to the application module
• Set a date when the user is assigned
• Create the Data View components
• Develop the Create Page
• Develop the Confirmation Page
• Develop the Done Page
• Pass values in a two page create transaction
• Add a create button to Search page

Passing Values within a Page

• Defining the search method view object
• Creating a search form to enter the search criteria
• Using the page definition to bind LOV values
• Set LOV values to be dynamic or static
• Creating a table to display the returned records

Creating Application Events in JSF

• JSF Lifecycle events
• Creating event listeners
• Validating JSF components
• Converting data
• Action Listeners

Deploying ADF Applications

• Deployment options for an ADF application
• Deploy an ADF application
• Export methods from view objects and application modules
• Deploy an application module to Oracle Application Server 10g

Using Web Services with ADF Applications

• Service Oriented Architecture
• Web services
• Calling a web service from an ADF application
• Exposing an application module as a web service

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting basics
• Logging and diagnostics
• Test clients
• Tools and utilities