Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials

Quickly build attractive, user-friendly web applications using Oracle's free ADF Essentials toolkit

Overview

• Quickly build compete applications with business services, page flows, and data-bound pages without programming
• Use Java to implement any business rule or application logic
• Choose the right architecture for high productivity and maintainability
• Follow a common example application that illustrates the key concepts throughout the book

In Detail

With ADF, Oracle gives you the chance to use the powerful tool used by Oracle’s own developers. Modern enterprise applications must be user-friendly, visually attractive, and fast performing. Oracle Fusion Applications are just that; but to get the desired output you need proven methods to use this powerful and flexible tool to achieve success in developing your enterprise applications.

"Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials" explains all you need to know in order to build good-looking, user-friendly applications on a completely free technology stack. It explains the highly productive, declarative development approach that will literally have your application running within a few hours, as well as how to use Java to add business logic.

"Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials" tells you how to develop and deploy web application applications based on the highly productive and free Oracle ADF Essentials framework. You will first learn how to build business services on top of database tables, and then how to easily build a web application using these services. You will see how to visually design the flow through your application with ADF task flows, and how to use Java programming to implement business logic. Using this book, you can start building and deploying advanced web applications on a robust, free platform quickly.

Towards the end, you will be ready to build real-world ADF Essentials applications and will be able to consider yourself an ADF Essentials journeyman.

What you will learn from this book

• Set up a complete, free development environment with MySQL, GlassFish, JDeveloper, and ADF Essentials
• Create business services based on database tables – without programming
• Visually design your application with ADF task flows
• Build application pages with advanced user interface components, automatically mapping them to business services
• Add business logic with regular Java programming, working with user interface elements and database data
• Divide your application into reusable ADF libraries for efficient development in larger teams
• Debug your application through all layers of the architecture
• Implement role-based security
• Set up automated build processes
• Package and deploy your application to test and production environments

Approach

"Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials" covers the basics of Oracle ADF and then works through more complex topics such as debugging and logging features and JAAS Security in JDeveloper as the reader gains more skills. This book will follow a tutorial approach, using a practical example, with the content and tasks getting harder throughout.

Sten E. Vesterli

Sten E. Vesterli picked up Oracle development as his first job after graduating from the Technical University of Denmark, and he hasn't looked back since. He has worked with almost every development tool and server Oracle has produced in the last two decades, including Oracle ADF, JDeveloper, WebLogic, SQL Developer, Oracle Portal, BPEL, Collaboration Suite, Designer, Forms, Reports, and even Oracle Power Objects.

He started sharing his knowledge with a conference presentation in 1997, and has since given more than 100 conference presentations at Oracle OpenWorld, ODTUG, IOUG, UKOUG, DOAG, and other user group conferences around the world. His presentations are highly rated by the participants, and in 2010, he received the ODTUG Best Speaker award.

He has also written numerous articles, participated in podcasts, and has written the books Oracle Web Applications 101, The McGraw-Hill Companies and Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development – Made Simple, Packt Publishing. You can find his blog at www.vesterli.com and follow him on Twitter as @stenvesterli.

Oracle has recognized Sten's skills as an expert communicator on Oracle technology by awarding him the prestigious title of Oracle ACE Director, which is carried by less than 100 people in the world. He is also an Oracle Fusion User Experience Advocate and is a part of the Oracle Usability Advisory Board and participates in the Oracle WebLogic Partner Council.

Based in Denmark, Sten is a partner in the Oracle consulting company Scott/Tiger, where he works as a Senior Principal Consultant. When not writing books or presenting, he is helping customers choose the appropriate technology for their needs, teaching, mentoring, and leading development projects. In his spare time, Sten enjoys triathlons, and he completed his first Ironman in 2012.