Oracle Middleware 12c: Build Rich Client Applications with ADF Ed 1

Suggested Prerequisite

• Basic experience with Oracle JDeveloper

Required Prerequisite

• Java SE 8 Fundamentals

Audience

• Application Developers
• Developer
• J2EE Developer
• Java EE Developers

Course Topics

1. Introduction to Oracle ADF and JDeveloper

• Creating applications, projects, and database connections
• Explaining benefits that JDeveloper provides for application development
• How ADF fits into the architecture?
• About Oracle Fusion Middleware architecture
• About main windows and editors in the JDeveloper IDE
• Discussing ADF technology stack

2. Building a Business Model with ADF Business Components

• Testing applications
• Defining master-detail relationships between view objects
• Refactoring business components
• About ADF Business Components
• Creating application modules
• Creating view objects and view links
• Creating entity objects and associations from database tables

3. Creating Data-Bound UI Components

• Describing standard JSF components
• Creating JSF pages
• Explaining JavaServer Faces and the JSF component architecture
• Discussing ADF Faces rich client components
• About dynamic webpage technologies
• Adding data-bound components to JSF pages

4. Defining Task Flows and Adding Navigation

• How ADF extends the JSF controller?
• Creating task flows
• Discussing ADF Faces navigation components

5. Declaratively Customizing ADF Business Components

• Modifying the default behavior of entity objects, view objects, and application modules
• Editing business components
• Creating lists of values (LOVs)
• Creating nested application modules

6. Validating User Input

• Internationalizing messages
• Writing Groovy expressions to use in validation
• Triggering validation execution
• Understanding validation options: Database, Data Model, or UI
• Handling validation errors

7. Modifying Data Bindings Between the UI and the Data Model

• Examining data binding objects and metadata files
• Creating and using ADF data controls
• Discussing expression Language (EL) and data bindings
• Reviewing Oracle ADF model layer
• Creating and editing data bindings

8. Adding Functionality to Pages

• Displaying a selection list of values
• Displaying data graphically
• Creating and configuring a backing bean
• Displaying tabular data in tables
• Displaying hierarchical data in trees
• Defining and using search forms and displaying the results

9. Adding Advanced Features to Task Flows and Page Navigation

• Creating bounded and unbounded task flows
• Creating routers for conditional navigation
• Creating and using page fragments
• Creating menu items, menu bars, pop-up menus, context menus, and navigation panes
• Defining breadcrumbs and trains
• Adding a bounded task flow as a region
• Calling methods and other task flows

10. Passing Values Between UI Elements

• Passing values by using parameters
• Defining the data model to reduce the need to pass values
• Storing values in memory-scoped attributes
• Creating a managed bean to hold values

11. Responding to Application Events

• Understanding additional ADF Faces server events
• Implementing partial page rendering (PPR)
• Working with value change event listeners
• Working with action event listeners
• Discussing JSF and ADF life cycle phases

12. Programmatically Implementing Business Service Functionality

• Deciding where to add custom code
• Overriding class methods
• Overview of the framework classes
• Implementing programmatic modifications
• Accessing ADF bindings programmatically
• Generating Java classes for business components
• Adding service methods to an application module
• Calling business component client APIs

13. Implementing Transactional Capabilities

• Sharing data controls
• Defining response to the Back button
• Specifying transaction control in task flows
• Handling transaction exceptions
• Handling transactions with ADF BC

14. Building Reusability into Pages

• Creating and using page templates
• Packaging reusable components into libraries
• Creating and using page fragments
• Designing pages for reuse

15. Achieving the Required Layout

• Defining and using component facets
• Defining and using complex layout components
• Defining and using dynamic page layout
• Adding a custom look by using ADF Faces skins

16. Debugging ADF Applications

• Debugging business services by using the Oracle ADF Model Tester
• Troubleshooting techniques
• Configuring logging and diagnostics
• Debuging an application in JDeveloper
• Developing regression tests with JUnit

17. Implementing Security in ADF Applications

• Implementing ADF security
• Extending security capabilities by using Expression Language
• Accessing security information programmatically
• Implementing a login page
• Enabling users to access resources
• Understanding the ADF security framework
• Benefits of securing web applications

18. Deploying ADF BC Applications

• Understanding the deployment steps
• Deploying an application from JDeveloper
• Creating deployment profiles and configuring deployment options
• Changing the context root for an application
• Building files for deployment by using ojdeploy