Developing with Oracle ADF
Oracle ADF emphasizes the use of the declarative programming paradigm throughout the development process to allow users to focus on the logic of application creation without having to get into implementation details. Using JDeveloper 11g with Oracle ADF, you benefit from a high-productivity environment that automatically manages your application's declarative metadata for data access, validation, page control and navigation, user interface design, and data binding.
At a high level, the development process for a Fusion web application usually involves the following:
Creating an application workspace: Using a wizard, JDeveloper automatically adds the libraries and configuration needed for the technologies you select, and structures your application into projects with packages and directories.
Modeling the database objects: You can create an offline replica of any database, and use JDeveloper editors and diagrammers to edit definitions and update schemas.
Creating use cases: Using the UML modeler, you can create use cases for your application.
Designing application control and navigation: You use diagrammers to visually determine the flow of application control and navigation. JDeveloper creates the underlying XML for you.
Identifying shared resources: You use a resource library that allows you to view and use imported libraries by simply dragging and dropping them into your application.
Creating business components to access data: From your database tables, you create entity objects using wizards or dialogs. From those entity objects, you create the view objects used by the pages in your application. You can implement validation rules and other types of business logic using editors.
Implementing the user interface with JSF: JDeveloper's Data Controls panel contains a representation of the view objects for your application. Creating a user interface is as simple as dragging an object onto a page and selecting the UI component you want to display the underlying data. For UI components that are not databound, you use the Component Palette to drag and drop components. JDeveloper creates all the page code for you.
Binding UI components to data using the ADF Model layer: When you drag an object from the Data Controls panel, JDeveloper automatically creates the bindings between the page and the data model Incorporating validation and error handling: Once your application is created you use editors to add additional validation and to define error handling.
Securing the application: You use editors to create roles and populate these with test users. You then use a flat file editor to define security policies for these roles and assign them to specific resources in your application Testing and debugging: JDeveloper includes an integrated application server that allows you to fully test your application without needing to package it up and deploy it. JDeveloper also includes the ADF Declarative Debugger, a tool that allows you to set breakpoints and examine the data.
Deploying the application: You use wizards and editors to create and edit deployment descriptors, JAR files, and application server connections.
Oracle ADF emphasizes the use of the declarative programming paradigm throughout the development process to allow users to focus on the logic of application creation without having to get into implementation details. Using JDeveloper 11g with Oracle ADF, you benefit from a high-productivity environment that automatically manages your application's declarative metadata for data access, validation, page control and navigation, user interface design, and data binding.
At a high level, the development process for a Fusion web application usually involves the following:
Creating an application workspace: Using a wizard, JDeveloper automatically adds the libraries and configuration needed for the technologies you select, and structures your application into projects with packages and directories.
Modeling the database objects: You can create an offline replica of any database, and use JDeveloper editors and diagrammers to edit definitions and update schemas.
Creating use cases: Using the UML modeler, you can create use cases for your application.
Designing application control and navigation: You use diagrammers to visually determine the flow of application control and navigation. JDeveloper creates the underlying XML for you.
Identifying shared resources: You use a resource library that allows you to view and use imported libraries by simply dragging and dropping them into your application.
Creating business components to access data: From your database tables, you create entity objects using wizards or dialogs. From those entity objects, you create the view objects used by the pages in your application. You can implement validation rules and other types of business logic using editors.
Implementing the user interface with JSF: JDeveloper's Data Controls panel contains a representation of the view objects for your application. Creating a user interface is as simple as dragging an object onto a page and selecting the UI component you want to display the underlying data. For UI components that are not databound, you use the Component Palette to drag and drop components. JDeveloper creates all the page code for you.
Binding UI components to data using the ADF Model layer: When you drag an object from the Data Controls panel, JDeveloper automatically creates the bindings between the page and the data model Incorporating validation and error handling: Once your application is created you use editors to add additional validation and to define error handling.
Securing the application: You use editors to create roles and populate these with test users. You then use a flat file editor to define security policies for these roles and assign them to specific resources in your application Testing and debugging: JDeveloper includes an integrated application server that allows you to fully test your application without needing to package it up and deploy it. JDeveloper also includes the ADF Declarative Debugger, a tool that allows you to set breakpoints and examine the data.
Deploying the application: You use wizards and editors to create and edit deployment descriptors, JAR files, and application server connections.
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