Lucas Jellema

OUGF Harmony 2014 – 4-5 June 2014 – Finland

ADF in action – getting (re)acquainted with Oracle’s premier application development framework

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ADF BC

• Expose tables, views and custom SQL queries as Java Services• Declarative• Productive• Very similar to Forms blocks• Features

– Optimistic & pessimistic locking– Transaction Management– Pooling of database session connections– Caching of queried and manipulated data– Validation of data manipulations– Enrichment of data fetched from the database– Web session (state) management– Oracle SQL comes naturally (sequence, return after DML, joins, BLOBs, PL/SQL,..)– Master/detail coordination

ADF BC

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Demo

• HRService from tables in HR schema– Add custom SQL with salary aggregation per department– Add business rules

• Run the ADF BC Service Tester• Expose HRService as a SOAP/XML Web Service• Invoke HRWebService from Soap UI

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Create new ADF Fusion Web Application

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Define Application Name – then Finish

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Create Business Components from Tables & Views in DB

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Select Tables (& Views) in DB – set name for Entity Objects

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Derive ViewObjects from EntityObjects

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Define the Business Service Name and Finish

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Define Business Rule for Employee EntityObject

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Business Rule: Salary should not be under 1200

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Create Custom SQL based ViewObject – to fuel Charts

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Aggregating SQL query to base the ViewObject on

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Define Key attribute and Associated with HrService

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Data Model in HrService

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Run the HrService – to test the data model, queries and rule

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Department => Employees ViewLink (master-detail synch)

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Testing the Business Rule for Salary values

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Testing the custom SQL based ViewObject

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Define a Web Service on top of the business service HrService

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Define the operations to expose in the Web Service

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ADF BC Application Moduleexposed as Web Service

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Business Service: HRService

ADF BC

Departments

Employees

SalaryPerDepart

mentVW

DepartmentsVw EmployeesVw

EmployeeDepartmentEntity Objects

View Objects

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Business Service: HRServiceExposes an ADF Model Data Control

ADF BC

DepartmentsEmployees

SalaryPerDepart

mentVW

DepartmentsVw EmployeesVw

EmployeeDepartment

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Data Controls – abstract business service

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Demo objective

• Screenshot of page to create• Based on Departments & Employees tables

– And custom SQL query for aggregation

• Show table with all departments• Show bar chart with top X departments in terms of salary sum (or avg

salary)• Popup per department with table with employees

– Move and resize columns– Sort and filter records

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Demo objective

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Create new Web Page(ADF Faces)

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Select new page style

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Add PanelHeader to page

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Add PanelSplitter to page

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Create a data bound table of all departments

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Add PanelTabbed

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Add SalaryPerDepartmentVw as Data Bound Chart

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Select chart type – then configure selected chart

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Add Data Bound Pie Chart

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Demo steps

• Add popup• Add button and listener to show popup• Drag panelwindow• Drag Employees table - sort, filter, resize and move columns

• Show results

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Add a popup component to the page

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Add a PanelWindow inside the popup component

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Add a data bound table to the popup (with employee details)

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Add the ShowPopupBehavior: show popup on hover over department id

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Running the application with Employee details popup

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ADF BC Validation is handled in User Interface

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Some table features:Filter records on column expressions

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Some table features:Move and Resize columns

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Some table features:Hide/Show columns

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Some table features:Detach table (to full page)

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Detached table – full page view

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Prepared advanced demo

• Login & Log out• Personalization: move, resize and hide columns• Skin Switcher• Language switcher• Commit – Validation/Error handling