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WebCenter 11gR1 PS3 – Design Time at Run Time with a Vengeance – introducing run time Data Controls and Data Visualizations
3The concept of design time @ run time that empowers application administrators and even end users to influence the application after it has been deployed has been gaining traction over the last few years. Bit by bit, run time customization facilities have made their way into Fusion Middleware. In the form of the SOA Composer, the BPM Process Composer, custom customization in ADF and various WebCenter features – most prominently the Composer framework.
The recent 11gR1 Patch Set 3 release has brought design time @ run time to the next level. In terms of functional richness as well as ease of use. Design Time at Run Time enables run time application administrators to not only change the layout of existing pages as well as add new content – static HTML or live Portlets -, but also to create new pages, edit the navigation structure of the application, change component properties and skin-attributes, create data controls and create and edit taskflows. Many of the application aspects that until recently were the sole discretion of the application developer are now available at runtime to privileged users. All in aid of agility and quick time to market.
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JDeveloper 11g PS 1 has been released – cool stuff!
1Last month during Oracle Open World I wrote an article on the upcoming features of PatchSet 1 for JDeveloper 11g: . Now this release has been published and is delivering on those promises. For an overview of all (?) new features, take a look at What's New. It is a fairly dry, emotionless, factual list of features small, large and enormous new features. With brief descriptions and screen shots for many of them, it gives you a quick overview of what might be useful to you. Note however that some gems are hidden away in this list for which the meaning and importance is not fully captured I believe in this summary. And of course the relevance of any new feature depends on your specific situation.
ADF 11g: Model driven display properties in Pojo based Data Controls
ADF 11g allows us to specify display hints, validation rules and a lot of other declarative settings for Attributes in Pojo based DataControls. These specifications influence the way display items based on these attributes are displayed and how they behave. Note: most of the default display settings based on model based settings can be overridden in the application. Note that this does not apply to for example the Validation Rules.
In a previous post, I suggested that the ViewObject in ADF BC seems to be taking over the role as DataControl – suggesting that even in a Pojo based scenario (for example with WebService proxies) a ViewObject should be used as the ultimate linking pin to the View (see:The rise of the ViewObject – or: isn’t the ViewObject the real Data Control?). The functionality discussed in this article demonstrates that we can do more for Pojos than I realized when writing that article. However, POJOs are still not ViewObjects…
The rise of the ViewObject – or: isn't the ViewObject the real Data Control?
The ADF Model is positioned to decouple the Application from the implementation details of the Business Service(s) it uses. Any Business Service, be it an EJB, a POJO based JPA implementation, a WebService, a plain URL service (RESTful or otherwise), a Content Management API or an ADF Business Components Application Module, can be published as a Data Control through the ADF Model and from there be used in Data Bindings. The application deals with Data Bindings, the ADF Model layer interfaces with all different business service technologies. Sounds good. However: some business service technologies are more equal than others. Or to be more exact: one is more equal than others. ADF Business Components enjoys far more privileges in the ADF Model layer than the other persistence and implementation technologies do. (more…)
Publishing resources exposed by ADF Data Control in RESTful services using RestLet and JDeveloper 11g
The previous two articles on RESTful services using RestLet and developing in JDeveloper 11g – First Steps with RestLet 1.1RC2 in JDeveloper 11g – restful services 101 and Extending the RestLet application with support for POST/PUT to create and update Resources – used a static data set as source for the Resources. For real world services that will not be your typical scenario. Usually a business service hiding a persistence layer sitting on top of a database or wrapping a web service (RESTful or otherwise) is the more logical publisher of resources.
In this article, we will see how we can leverage ADF Model – Data Control & Data Bindings – to hook up such a business service. ADF Model publishes a Data Control for each Business Service it exposes. Through the Data Control applications can get access to data collections and operations acting on that data. For the application consuming the Data Control there should be no difference whether the underlying business service is an ADF BC application module connecting to a relational database, an EJB doing something similar, a web service published in the SOA of the organization or a RESTful service out there on the internet. That is at More >
Some more details on ADF Placeholder Data Control (rebind component, master detail, load sample data from CSV file)
In a recent article I gave a brief introduction of the ADF 11g Placeholder Data Control – see: ADF 11g Placeholder Data Control – for off line demonstration of application and/or rapid UI prototyping without a need for a business service – and the value of using that type of Data Control for User Interface design/prototyping. I promised to take a closer look at same slightly more interesting aspects of this type of data control. How the data control can be created from a CSV file – both attributes and sample data-, how Placeholder Data Control Data Types can have a master details relationship and how an ADF Faces component, bound to a Placeholder Data Control can be rebound to another Data Control. (more…)
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