What you will learn:

Java EE is a standard, robust, scalable, and secure platform that forms the basis for many of today’s enterprise applications. Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) is an innovative, yet mature Java EE development framework that is directly supported and enabled by Oracle JDeveloper 11g. Oracle ADF simplifies Java EE development by minimizing the need to write code that implements the application’s infrastructure allowing developers to focus on the features of the actual application.

This course is aimed at developers who want to build Java EE applications using Oracle ADF. Participants use Oracle JDeveloper 11g Release 1 Patch Set 1 to build, test and deploy an end-to-end web application. The data model is built with ADF Business Components and the user interface with ADF Faces. During the course, participants learn to build each part of the application with the Fusion technology stack and then deploy it to WebLogic Server.

 Learn To:

• Build end-to-end web applications 
• Develop Java EE components with Oracle ADF
• Build rich user interfaces with ADF Faces
• Use the new capabilities of Oracle JDeveloper 11g Release 1 Patch Set 1

Audience:

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

  Prerequisites:

  Suggested Prerequisites:

  • Familiarity with basic Java
  • Familiarity with JDeveloper
  • Familiarity with XML concepts

Course Objectives:

• Expose the data model in a web application with a rich ADF Faces user interface
• Create JSF pages
• Use rich client components in JSF pages
• Add validation to ADF applications
• Secure Web applications
• Build and customize a data model by using ADF Business Components

Course Topics:

Introduction to Fusion and ADF

• Describing Fusion architecture
• Explaining how ADF fits into the Fusion architecture
• Describing the ADF technology stack (MVC)

Getting Started with JDeveloper

• Listing JDeveloper benefits for application development
• Using the features of the JDeveloper IDE
• Defining IDE preferences
• Creating applications, projects, and connections in JDeveloper

Building a Data Model with ADF Business Components

• Introducing ADF Business Components
• Creating Business Components from tables
• Testing the data model

Querying and Persisting Data

• Using view objects
• Using entity objects to persist data
• Synchronizing entity objects with database table changes
• Creating associations
• Creating updateable view objects
• Creating master-detail relationships
• Refactoring

Exposing Data

• Creating application modules
• Using master-detail view objects in application modules
• Managing Business Components transactions
• Abstracting business services with ADF Model

Declaratively Customizing Data Services

• Internationalizing the data model
• Editing business components
• Modifying default behavior of entity objects
• Changing the locking behavior of an application module

Programmatically Customizing Data Services

• Generating Java classes
• Programmatically modifying the behavior of entity objects
• Programmatically modifying the behavior of view objects
• Adding service methods to an application module
• Using client APIs

Validating User Input

• Understanding validation options: Database, Data Model, or UI
• Triggering validation execution
• Handling validation errors
• Using Groovy expressions in validation
• Using programmatic validation

Troubleshooting ADF BC Applications

• Troubleshooting the business service
• Troubleshooting the UI
• Using logging and diagnostics
• Using the JDeveloper debugger

Understanding UI Technologies

• Describing the use of Web browsers and HTML
• Describing the function of Servlets and JSPs
• Defining JavaServer Faces
• Explaining the JSF component architecture and JSF component types
• Explaining the purpose of backing beans and managed beans
• Describing the JSF life cycle
• Explaining how ADF Faces augments the JSF life cycle

Binding UI Components to Data

• Creating a JSF page
• Adding UI components to a page
• Describing the ADF Model layer
• Using Expression Language in data bindings
• Using a Page Definition file
• Examining data binding objects and metadata files
• Binding existing components to data
• Running and testing the page

Planning the User Interface

• Describing the Model-View-Controller design pattern
• Differentiating between bounded and unbounded task flows
• Creating and converting task flows
• Defining control flows
• Defining global navigation
• Creating routers for conditional navigation
• Calling methods and other task flows
• Implementing validation in the user interface

Adding Functionality to Pages

• Internationalizing the user interface
• Using component facets
• Displaying tabular data in tables
• Displaying hierarchical data in trees
• Displaying text or media with icons and images
• Defining search forms and display results
• Displaying data graphically

Implementing Navigation on Pages

• Using ADF Faces navigation components
• Using buttons and links
• Using menus for navigation
• Using breadcrumbs
• Using a train component

Achieving the Required Layout

• Using complex layout components
• Explaining how to use ADF Faces skins
• Using dynamic page layout

Ensuring Reusability

• Designing for reuse
• Using task flow templates
• Creating and using page templates
• Creating and using declarative components
• Creating and using page fragments
• Deciding which type of reusable component to use

Passing Values Between UI Elements

• Defining the data model to reduce the need to pass values
• Using a managed bean to hold values
• Using page parameters
• Using task flow parameters
• Passing values from containing pages to regions

Responding to Application Events

• Using managed beans
• Coordinating JSF and ADF lifecycles
• Using phase and event listeners
• Using action listeners and methods
• Understanding additional AJAX events

Implementing Transactional Capabilities

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

Implementing Security in ADF BC Applications

• Exploring ADF Application security options
• Understanding ADF security framework
• Enabling users to access resources
• Implementing a Login page
• Understanding ADF controller authorization
• Using Expression Language to extend security capabilities