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ADF Faces: Handle task in background process and show real time progress indicator for asynchronous job using Server Push in ADF
6Recently I received an email from Peru. An ADF developer from Peru was facing a challenge with ADF. In short: ‘the upload of a (large) file should be followed by a potentially long running job. Ideally, the browser would not freeze while the uploaded file is processed and on top of that it would be great to report the progress of the job to the user’.
I like this kind of challenge, especially since I consider both asynchronous processing and server push two of my areas of interest. So I took on the challenge and tried a quickly put together an application that demonstrates this behavior.
This article discusses how I used standard Java concurrency functionality to take the job off line (in a scheduled, background job) and how I leveraged Active Data Service in ADF Faces to have the background job report its progress through an active bean and server push to the browser.
After the user kicks off the job by pushing a button:
the user will be in control again (synchronous but background parrtial request completes) and and will also be informed on the job’s progress through the server push:
In this example, the job progress in steps of 10% that take between 2 and 4 seconds. As soon More >
(Slides for) Push to the limit – rich and pro-active user interfaces with ADF (Oracle Open World 2011)
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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 – Validation of Uploaded Files with the inputFile component
Today we had a little issue with the inputFile component in ADF 11g, especially with its behavior after failed validation. Our situation: the inputFile component has autoSubmit set to true – so immediately after selecting a file in the browser dialog is the upload started in an asynchronous request. Validation is performed, either from validators or in a valueChangeListener (because I was too lazy to look up the syntax for a validator).
The behavior of the inputFile component is such that after the initial upload, the name of the uploaded file is shown as a read only value and the browse button is replaced by an update button: we can change the file, but not perform the initial upload anymore. When the user presses the update button, a small pop up appears in which we can browse for a file, click on the OK button to have it uploaded or click on Cancel to have the update aborted.
Unfortunately, when the file that was initially uploaded has failed validation, the OK button in this popup does not allow us to actually upload the newly selected file. The page continues to display the uploaded, invalid file and the update of that file to resolve the validation errors can not be More >
ADF 11gR1 – new Hierarchical Viewer for visually pleasing representation of data structures
One of the data visualization tags required by the teams working on the Oracle Fusion Application Module for Human Resource Management, was a component capable of rendering organization charts. Hierarchical structures from CEO all the way down to the youngest trainee. In a pleasing, graphically interesting, somewhat animated fashion. And so the ADF team developed the Hierarchy Viewer. And since they developed it anyway, we can now make use of it as well. While it may not be the component you will most frequently use, it is certainly an interesting presentation option for special data structures. This component can work against the same tree data binding you would use for tree tables or trees, and can therefore be configured in a very simple, declarative fashion.
In this article some simple examples of how to use this new component. This article is the short summary of a presentation and demonstration I did at the recent ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 conference (late June, Monterey). It demonstrates how the conference’s session schedule can be represented in the Hierarchy Viewer.
That's Rich! Putting a smile on ADF Faces (presenting at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009)
The ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 conference started on Sunday with four parallel symposia followed by a stunning demonstration of the upcoming Fusion Applications product based on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g (including the most visible parts: WebCenter and ADF) – more on that presentation in a later blog. On Monday I did my two presentations – the first of which was titled:"That’s Rich! Putting a smile on ADF Faces". In this presentation I tried to explain what support ADF Faces (11g Rich Client) provides for creating really rich User Interfaces. Duncan Mills graciously had allowed me to present using the upcoming JDeveloper 11.1.1.1.0 release (internal code name Bulldog) that is part of the 1st July launch of Oracle Fusion Middleware, and it allowed me to show off some of the new stuff.
ADF web applications have been hailed as productive to develop and functionally complete. However, ADF 11g RichFaces makes them visually attractive, rich and really Web 2.0 too. This presentation is about enriching ADF Web applications with 11g RichFaces. It discusses features, components, containers, events and behaviors that ADF developers now have at their disposal and how to best use them. Key More >
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