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OOW Sneak preview of Database Excel-erator – on the ADF Desktop integration
One of the sessions I attended yesterday at OOW was by Juan Camilo Ruiz, Product Manager for Oracle Development Tools. His talk was titled ‘Introduction to Oracle ADF Desktop Integration; An Office front-end for ADF Applications.’
He showed how we will be able to use Excel as the client for ADF applications. Instead of having users go into a Swing Desktop client or the ADF Faces Web interface, they can use the tool they are perhaps most familiar with to review, analyze and manipulate the data. Excel is a client to the ADF Model and Business Services through which it downloads the data and uploads the data when the user submits the changes.
Note that the Excel worksheet can taken off-line and the user can work on the data – potentially huge sets of it – in disconnected mode (on the air plane for example where despite all the cloud computing initiatives connectivity still is a scare commodity) only to have it synchronized when it becomes connected again. It is a bit like mobile devices that can work in disconnected mode and synchronize once a connection is available again – but it is Excel behaving in that way. From a developer’s point of view, developing the Excel client for ADF More >
ADF 11g Placeholder Data Control – for off line demonstration of application and/or rapid UI prototyping without a need for a business service
ADF applications are typically heavily into data. One of the major strengths of the framework is the data binding layer that allows rapid development of complex user interfaces bound to underlying data controls. These data controls expose data sources such as relational databases, web services, content management systems, JMX beans (as of 11g), REST/URL services and plain files. ADF applications in the recent past had to be developed with all these data sources present – without them the UI components could not be rendered and the application would not run.
This limits the flexibility during the development process: data sources are required for creating the databound user interface. Without them, no meaningful user interfacer can be created.
With 11g, a new type of data control is introduced: the Placeholder Data Control. Placeholder Data Controls are the stand-ins for real data controls. They can be used when the real data control and its underlying data source are not yet available or the application is temporarily off line without access to the database or web services that underpin the model. Placeholder Data Controls allow the creation of a data bound user interface in the More >
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