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Book review: JDeveloper 11g Handbook: A Guide to Fusion Web Development
1In this blog I will share with you my experiences with the Oracle JDeveloper11g Handbook – A Guide to Oracle Fusion Web Development (McGraw-Hill, 2010) – written by Duncan Mills, Peter Koletzke and Avrom Roy-Faderman. It is the successor of their previous book, JDeveloper 10g for Forms & PL/SQL Developers. This is a book to learn the basics of ADF Fusion development and a valuable guide for reference. If you’re a starter, than the hands-on part in this book is a good and practical exercise.
ADF 11g : What is the Currently Active Taskflow in a Dynamic Region ?
2There are use cases in which you need to determine what the currently active taskflow is. This looks like simple, but in fact it is not ! Let’s rephrase that : Depending on the context, it can be a pretty confusing task. (more…)
ADF 11g: Ode to the Task Flow
2Last night we organized the “Ode to the Task Flow” session at AMIS. After a short presentation introducing the Bounded Task Flow it was time for the hands-on lab: “Build your first taskflow”.
In this lab many of the attendees created their first taskflow, learning the basics of ADF taskflows. This first taskflow receives a job title, and optionally your favorite color via input parameters. Based on that information a welcome message is created. The taskflow is smart enough to invoke the proper logic by using a router to show the correct page fragment based on an input parameter. From this activity, you can change your name in another view activity. This taskflow includes routers, method calls, input parameters, default activities and wild card control flows.
After diner (great Chinese food) there was no time for my usual after diner dip. I had to present a demo on packaging an ADF Task Flow as an ADF Library, and invoking it into a new application. After this demo, the second hands-on lab started. This part of the “Ode to the Taskflow” hands-on lab, was about the mechanism used to achieve reuse across applications: the ADF Library – the bundle in which reusable taskflows are More >
Kennissessie ADF 11g – Ode aan de Task Flow
0ADF 11g staat vooral bekend om zijn rich components waarmee een moderne, interactieve en aantrekkelijke user interface kan worden ontwikkeld. En een beetje om de Data Visualization Components (DVTs) waarmee allerlei geavanceerde grafieken en andere vormen van grafische data-presentatie kunnen worden ingepast in de web applicatie.
Veel minder bekend en zichtbaar is de Task Flow. Terwijl dat uit oogpunt van architectuur en voor een efficiente organisatie van een onvangrijk ontwikkel-project en zeker voor het kunnen realiseren van reuse de belangrijkste vernieuwing is geweest in ADF 11g.
Een TaskFlow is een op zichzelf staande module die zowel code – managed beans, navigation rules – als user interface bevat. Een task flow is bijna een mini-applicatie met mogelijk verschillende schermen, complexe navigatie tussen de schermen en een eigen memory scope. Een task flow kan worden geintegreerd in schermen in de applicatie (en in andere task flows). Het contract daarvoor bestaat uit input parameters en events. Task flows kunnen worden verpakt in libraries en tussen projecten worden uitgewisseld als generieke reusable componenten. Een voorbeeld van dat laatste gebruik van task flows zijn de More >
ADF 11g: Debugging Task Flows embedded from ADF Libraries using source code jars
1We have been struggling quite a bit with a good approach for modularizing our ADF web applications through the use of (stand alone) Task Flows that are developed in independent projects and assembled into a single Web Application from ADF Libraries. In theory, this is a very structured, decoupled way of developing potentially complex ADF Web Applications – while allowing for reuse. The contextual events mechanism in combination with the task flow input parameters allow definition of a clear interface through which to reuse the task flow. So all seems well.
However, when you try to put this theoretical bliss into actual practice, there are some limitations that you run into. One of the tricky issues we had to deal with is: how can we debug our web application when part of the source of the application is reused from ADF Libraries? How can we put breakpoints in the sources that are part of the ADF Library?
On closer inspection, there seems to be a relatively easy way for doing this – using an additional library definition in JDeveloper that refers to the sources that form the foundation of the ADF Library.
Let’s take a quick look at how this would work:
OOW 2009: Experiences with Oracle WebCenter 11g: Implementing SOA with a User Interface
One of the sessions I am (co-)presenting at Oracle Open World 2009 is on ‘applying the concepts of SOA to and achieving the SOA objectives with User Interfaces’. What goes for SOA and typical programmatic (web)services can be applied to User Interface components to a large extent. Decoupling – cross location, cross technology, cross development team and deployment unit – and reusing based on clear interface definitions and encapsulation of implementation is also available for user interface development.
Our presentation – I am copresenting with my colleague Peter Ebell – introduced the SOA concepts and objectives and demonstrates the application of SOA to the UI, using first Portlets and then ADF Task Flows. Subsequently we introduce WebCenter – as the portlet-infrastructure for ADF and also as the real life example of the notion of reusable, independently developed user interface components. We will discuss the nature of the contract you define for such reusable UI services (parameters, events – inbound and outbound) and demonstrate the steps you have to go through to make it work. Finally we will go into ‘how to add a user interface to a SOA implementation’- or: when does a More >
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