Mia Urman, AuraPlayer

@miaurman

miaurman@auraplayer.com

Take Your Oracle Forms on the Road

Using ADF Mobile

Mia UrmanCEO, AuraPlayer

Oracle ACE and Oracle Forms Evangelist

• 15 years supporting, training and consulting Oracle Tools

• 7 years at Oracle as a senior support analyst and local product manager of Forms and ADF.

• Founder of AuraPlayer - Oracle Forms modernization solutions to unlock Forms systems and fast-track to a Mobile / SOA architecture / Cloud

• ODTUG board member , international speaker at Kscope, OOW, UKOUG

Session Agenda• Why Go Mobile?

• Oracle ADF Mobile Overview

• Components of ADF Mobile

– The Data Layer

– The UI Presentation Layer - AMX Components

– Integrating Device Features

• Running Oracle Forms on the Mobile

• Getting Started

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What Device is Accessing Your

Application?

Client Server

Evolving With Oracle Forms

Client Server

Mobile

Evolving With Oracle Forms

Understanding Mobile Requirements

• Application Functionality - No mouse, Touch gestures

• Device Type – Phone / Tablet

• Screen size

• Network type – Security , Speed

• Device features integration

• Types of Users – Occasional, Internal/external

• Type of Applications – Browser Based / Hybrid

Mobile Web App(Viewed in Safari)

3 Mobile Application Types

Mobile WebApps

Online application accessed through mobile device browser

Browser governs access to local storage and device services (camera, GPS, etc.)

Highly reusable code

Highly portable

Native MobileApps

Application installed & runs on device

Optimized for specific mobile platform and form factor

Direct access to local storage and device services

Code reuse can be complex

Portability requires work

Hybrid MobileApps

Application installed & runs on device with HTML5 UI

Optimized for specific mobile platform & form factor

Direct access to local storage and device services

Code reuse simplified

Portability simplified

Native App(iOS)

Oracle ADF – Multi Channel Framework

OracleADF

Database

Web Services

CloudWeb

MobileOffice

Legacy Systems

Oracle

Applications

Java HTML5

Use Existing Skills Set

Built On Standards

Use Existing Skills Set

Built On Standards

Oracle

ADF Mobile

Oracle ADF MobileUnique Hybrid Mobile Framework

ADF Mobile Overview

• Thin Native container on each platform

– Allows for device interaction

– Push notification support

• HTML5/JavaScript Frontend

• Java Backend

• Encrypted SQLite

Focused on Productivity

•Oracle JDeveloper Extension

•Declarative and visual development

•Integration with Apple Xcode and Android SDK

Component based UI construction

Task Flows

Data Controls

Packaging

Deployment

Debugging

Integrated Development

Environment

Business Services Development

• Code logic with Java

• Lightweight JVM

• Easy access to Remote - Web service

– SOAP

– REST XML, REST JSON

• Local Business Logic

– Java Classes

– SQLite DB - Portable, lightweight relational database

UI Content options• Device native user experience

• Local AMX File

– JSF-like file built visually in JDeveloper

– Generated into HTML/JS

on device at RT

• Remote URL

– Any server-side HTML

• Local HTML File

– Coded with any third-party HTML5

frameworks

ADF Mobile XML Components (AMX)

• XML format built visually in

JDeveloper

• 50+ Components

• Declarative data binding

• Rendered into HTML5

on device at RT

CarouselT-Maps

ListView

Gauge

Charts

GeoMap

Basic Components Forms

DVT Charts, Gauges, Maps

Device Rich Features

Do you still carry around

one of these?

Device Features Interaction

• Leverages Apache Cordova

• Drag and drop to use

– Email

– SMS

– Contacts

– GPS

– Camera

• Or access programmatically

Gesture Navigation Support

• Configure components to react to the following gestures:

– Swipe to the right, left, up, down

– Tap-and-hold

• Set the “Type” attribute when using the following

operations:– Set Property Listener (e.g. setting Scope Variables)

– Action Listener (e.g. invoking Backing Beans)

– Show Popup Behavior & Close Popup Behavior

– Navigating between Panel Items

Data Caching Challenges• Mobile devices can lose/turn off connectivity

• Offline access to data is a common requirement

• But it will increase the complexity of your application

• If you cache data locally you must consider

– When to cache the data

– How much data to cache

– When to synchronize updates

– Recording the order of updates

– How to deal with synchronization conflicts

– Security of the data if the device is lost

Security

Getting Started

Oracle Forms Using ADF Mobile

Exposing Oracle Forms to ADF Web Desktop Mobile Office

Database Web Services Legacy Systems Applications Unlimited

Exposing Oracle Forms to ADF Web Desktop Mobile Office

Web Services

See Demo

• AuraPlayer wraps pre-recorded Forms scenarios as Webservices

• Runs native business logic on the existing Forms server from ADF Mobile/ ADF /

APEX / Java

• When the system evolves, the service can be easily replaced, with newer

redeveloped service/technology.

• No Java applet – Runs Form without UI

Creates native ADF datacontrols that runs

Oracle Forms silently in the background

• Allows you to develop, test

and maintain one core system.

ADF Integration Features

Exposing Forms to Mobile: The Process

Understand Business Process

Record & Deploy Scenario

Generate WS with wizard

Create ADF Mobile App

Run Your Mobile App!

• Choose the Oracle Forms business process to record

• Select input / Output data to capture from Forms

• Identify expected results – popups, messages, errors

Understanding the Business Process

• Record the Forms business process using the AuraPlayer Toolbar

• Automatically Generate Webservices using the AuraPlayer Service

Manager

Recording Demo

Webservice generation Demo

Deploy Oracle Forms as WS

Create ADF DataControls for AuraPlayer Webservice URL-URL is simply copied from the AuraPlayer service manager

Create AMX pages and design new mobile UI

DEMO

Create ADF Mobile UI - Jdeveloper

Define TaskFlow with Validations1. Define the navigation flow between the pages

2. Add validations (managed bean) that should occur upon

success or failure of events

Demo Time

Oracle

11g DB

Desktop

Mobile Devices

DMZ

External Network

Oracle

Forms

11g

Server

Secure Weblogic Server

Runs Webservice

FW

Service Manager

AuraPlayer – Solution Architecture

Native

ADF Mobile app

AuraPlayer - Same Forms Business Logic Multiple UIs

What You Need

• Development

– Oracle JDeveloper 11.1.2.3

– Oracle ADF Mobile Extension (help->check for updates)

– OraPlayer Recording Toolbar

• Deployment / testing / run-time

– iOS on Mac machine

• iOS SDK+Xcode 4.4.x - require iOS Developer Program Membership

– Free version (Xcode 4.5) is known to work but not certified

– Android

• Android SDK (API Level 9 Min, 16 recommended) + Android device

– OraPlayer Server to run Oracle Forms system

More Information

• Mia Urman - miaurman@auraplayer.com

• ADF Mobile on OTN

– Datasheets,Tutorial,Demos

• ADF Mobile Blog – http://blogs.oracle.com/mobile/

• Oracle Forms Community Blog – http://www.Oracleformsinfo.com

• Twitter.com/Jdeveloper, Facebook.com/Jdeveloper

• Twitter.com/miaurman, Twitter.com/auraplayer

• AuraPlayer – www.auraplayer.com or info@auraplayer.com

My ADF Mobile Blog

• Tips and Tricks

• Common Bugs

• How to documents

• Presentations

www.ADFMobileInfo.com

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