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ADF 11g – the native AutoSuggest behavior

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3 years ago
by Lucas Jellema in , ,

The recent ADF 11gR1 PS1 release introduced a component we have been waiting for: the inputText with AutoSuggest. An inputText component that will present suggested values to the user depending on whatever text the user has already entered. The implementation in ADF of the functionality that got AJAX started, based on the original Google Suggest feature:

The auto suggest mechanism in ADF is not so much a new input component as it is a behavior (component) that can be added to inputText components. By adding the properly configured autoSuggest to an inputText, it is turned into an inputText with autoSuggest:

&lt;af:inputText label=&quot;Country&quot; value=&quot;#{item.country}&quot; columns=&quot;20&quot; id=&quot;it5&quot;&gt; <strong> &lt;af:autoSuggestBehavior suggestedItems=&quot;#{countrySuggester.getCountries}&quot;/&gt; </strong>&lt;/af:inputText&gt;

Here we have added the autoSuggestBehavior to an inputText that is used for entering a country. Of course we could have used a dropdown component, combobox or list of values. However, the auto suggest is somewhat more light weight and elegant especially when our collection of countries is far from More >

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OOW 2009 – And they call that a "patch set"? Marvels coming up in ADF 11gR1 PS 1

3 years ago
by Lucas Jellema in , , , , , ,

 

Last Friday I attended a product briefing at Oracle HQ that prepared me for today’s Oracle Open World 2009 keynote presentation by Ted Farrell on development tools and middleware. Oracle will soon (some time November?) release what it calls Patch Set 1 for the Fusion Middleware 11g stack and this article goes into the new bits and pieces that we will see coming up in JDeveloper 11g and ADF 11g. Which clearly demonstrates that ‘patch set’ is misnomer of sorts. Sure enough, there will patches – fixes for bugs – in this release, but the list of new functionality and features (Duncan Mills boasted about 550+ new features) make it clear that there is much more to it than just patches. I was more than a little (pleasantly) surprised with this list. Let me share some of the details- and unfortunately I cannot demonstrate anything at this point as the software is not yet available.

Some of the common themes that link the new elements together include developer productivity (and fun), team productivity, end user experience and best practices. And of course filling some of the holes that existed in the previous releases – in terms of things not working and also obvious things simply not More >

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