When we were doing the APEX vs. ADF session at the last day of the ODTUG Conference yesterday, Dimitri showed a nice feature in APEX that allows you to use Oracle Flashback Queries to look not just at table data as it is right now, but also as it used to be in the recent past. That inspired me to see how easy it would be to do something similar for an ADF application. As an example of what you can do, I will create a simple web page in this article that will show an editable table with Employee records and below that a read only table that can show the data as it is right now, or as it was at some specific time in the last. Through a dropdown list, the user can select from which point in time the data should be retrieved. It allows for quick inspection of changes in data and could serve as a basis for recovering data (more…)