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Dear Java/JEE developer – why should you care about ADF?

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3 months ago
by Lucas Jellema in , , , ,

Whether you are deciding on the framework to use for your next Java web or mobile project or whether you are contemplating your next career step as a Java EE developer, ADF should be on your short list for consideration. With a new free version, deployment on many application servers including Tomcat, JBoss and GlassFish, extended support in both Eclipse and JDeveloper, and a Java based mobile solution for both iOS and Android – ADF has a lot to offer.

ADF is the Java EE Application Development Framework from Oracle. ADF allows developers to develop rich, enterprise grade Java web and mobile applications in a very productive manner. Many of the generic (plumbing) concerns that need to be addressed for most Java/JEE applications are taken care of by the framework – allowing developers to focus on the business specific functional areas. The initial 80% of the application is created through largely declarative development – 4GL style. The remaining 80% is dealt with in a fairly ordinary coding style, similar to plain Java EE development or to development using other frameworks.

This article discusses the question why any Java/JEE developer should know and care about ADF. It will More >

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The ultimate ADF event of 2012: The AMIS Master Class Advanced ADF – Christmas Special (Friday 21st of December)

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6 months ago
by Lucas Jellema in , , ,

If you are an ADF developer – and The Netherlands are within reach for you – then Friday 21st of December is a day to mark in your diary. On that day, the shortest of the year in our Northern Hemisphere, we present the Advanced ADF Master Class – in the spirit of the holiday season.

The speakers for this master class are a team of seven -

and more like the Magnificent Seven than like Snow White’s dwarfs. Each is an ADF specialist who is committed to deliver an inspiring talk on his specific expertise within the ADF domain. This event is unique – bringing together ADF specialists in a special, intimate Christmas atmosphere – and with Dutch Christmas treats as icing on the cake. The topics are all based on real life experience. The concepts discussed and the approaches demonstrated have immediate practical value. The setting lends itself to up close and personal interactions, discussions and deep dive explanations.

It is a wonderful opportunity for ADF developers as well as application architects to get inspired in various essential areas of ADF, to acquire knowledge and insights that are applicable back on the job and to exchange ideas and experiences with peers – all in a seasonal More >

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ADF: Cloning personalizations between users – read and write MDS Customization documents

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7 months ago
by Lucas Jellema in , ,

In a recent post I wrote how wonderful the ADF support for user level customizations or personalizations is, and then I went on to explain how the user can be enabled to remove her own personalizations (http://technology.amis.nl/2012/09/27/adf-undo-the-users-page-personalizations-query-and-manipulate-mds/). This article a sequel to that story. It will introduce the capability for one user to clone the personalizations from another user. This means at the background that the document that contains the customizations for a page for the ‘source user’ is read and a new document with the exact same contents is written for the ‘target user’ who will then have personalizations that are at that time exactly the same as those of the source user. There is no link between the two documents – they are both on their own. Any pre-existing personalizations for the target user are lost in this process.

Note: I do not talk about the privileges that you want to define in order to not have anyone copying from just anyone else. Also note that I discuss cloning the personalizations for a single page only. Copying all personalizations from one user to another however is a very simple extension of what More >

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ADF: undo the user’s page personalizations – query and manipulate MDS

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7 months ago
by Lucas Jellema in ,

One of the quite powerful features of ADF is the built in support user customizations also known as personalizations. A user can apply changes to an ADF web page – rearranging some of the layout, configuring advanced components such as tables and generally fine tuning the look and feel to the user’s individual needs. If the application is so configured, these changes are retained during the session (for each next visit to the page) or even across sessions (for each next visit to the page, also after an intermediate log out, in an entirely new session).

The framework provides declarative support for registering and reapplying the personalizations made by the user. These are held in the MDS Repository, in an XML file that contains the deltas that the user is (indirectly) requesting to have applied on top of the base sources of the application.

The framework does not have built in out of the box support for resetting the page – returning it to its factory level, the state in which the developers created it. The customization document needs to be removed from the MDS repository when the user wants to undo the personalizations made. To accomplish this, we need to write a little code More >

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ADF BC: How to customize the RowImpl class for an Entity Object as site level customization

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8 months ago
by Lucas Jellema in ,

Last week I have been teaching a two day workshop on customization – one of the most powerful framework facilities in ADF. Customizations allows you to create a set of modifications (or even multiple sets of modifications) on top of a base application. The behavior and appearance of the application can be fine tuned to the specific needs of a site (or instance) of the application, or even to the desires of specific user groups on such a site. Especially for ISVs who develop their products using ADF and who would like to create and ship a single version of the application yet allow customers during implementation to do fine tuning according to local requirements, customization is fantastic feature. It allows the creation of customizations that are separate from the core code and that will survive new releases of the base application.

In future blogs, I will tell you more about customization. In this article, I will focus on a specific aspect of customization of ADF applications that may not be as straightforward. It concerns the definition of the RowImpl class for an Entity Object (or any Java Class referenced from ADF BC components).

Our specific need is that the application ships More >

8 months ago

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