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Keeping up appearances with ADF 11g RichFaces – Context Sensitive Styling in a world of imperfect HTML with dynamic PageTemplate and Page Fragment includes
You may not necessarily know me for all the useful things I do. I tend to find nooks an crannies in JDeveloper 11g and ADF 11g that are no real use to people doing a real job. However, today I have got something to share that is actually useful. I know this as I ran into a demand for it at a customer I visited today.
In short, the situation was like this: we are creating a web application that needs to have several appearances – not very much alike. The basic functionality – data entry, data display, navigation options – is by and large the same. However, there are substantial differences in the look of these various appearances. And no – it is not just styling or skinning, though that is certainly part of it. What in one appearance maybe located on the top of the page may go right into the center of the page in another appearance. And what in one incarnation maybe a search area with three items, positioned in a horizontal group, all of them plain inputText items may in another incarnation be implemented with two input elements, one a group of radio buttons and a dropdown, positioned in a vertical layout. (more…)
Building a repository of reusable ADF artefacts using ADF Libraries – for example: a reusable Placeholder Data Control
Reusability – and from there higher productivity and easier maintenance – is one of the key themes for ADF 11g. There are several important new concepts introduced in this new release, including Task Flows, Declarative Components, Page Templates and Page Fragments. It is of course one thing to create artefacts that are potentially reusable. It is quite another to organize those artefacts and make them available across projects and applications. And that is where the ADF Library comes in. It is the vehicle for packaging up fairly small scoped reusable elements in JAR files that are then made available in the Resource Catalog.
It turns out to be incredibly easy to create an ADF Library – and to reuse one. I will demonstrate that in this article, by turning a Placeholder Data Control that provides off line data binding opportunities for applications using DEPT and EMP. I have created a Placeholder Data Control with Department and Employee Data Types and sample data taken from the SCOTT schema. (see Some more details on ADF Placeholder Data Control (rebind component, master detail, load sample data from CSV file) for details on how to do that). Now I want to make that Placeholder More >
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