Grant RonaldPrincipal Product Manager

JDeveloper and ADF for Forms Developers: Taking it to the next level

Agenda

• What you should know• What this presentation is• What this presentation isn’t!

• Getting into the code• Extending the business logic

• Common “Forms trigger” points• Searching and querying• Calling a stored procedure from ADF BC

• Extending the user interface• Conditional page flow• Stacked canvases

What You Should Know

• JDeveloper• ADF• ADF Business Components• JSF

ADF Architecture

ADF Data Binding/ Data Control

Struts JSF

JSF/ADF FacesJSPADF Swing

Java Classes

EJB ADF Business

Components

WebServices

PortletsJSR-168WSRP

View

Controller

Model(JSR 227)

Business Services

Toplink

Relational Data XML Data Packaged AppsLegacy Data

Data Source

Metadata Services (MDS)

ADF Business Components

Customer

Order

LineItem

OrdView

CustView

OrdView

OrdView

CustView

Application Module

View Objects

Entity Objects

Getting into the code

• ADF BC doesn’t “generate code”• “default” XML definition

• Allows you to expose more and more of the implementation code

Getting into the code

• Exposing code in the Entity Object

Getting into the code

• Exposing code in the View Object

Getting into the code

• Exposing code in the Application Module

Common “Forms Trigger” points

• Validation• When-Validate-Item, When-Validate-Record

• Query • Pre-Query, Post-Query

• Transaction• Pre-Commit, On-Commit, Post-Commit• Pre-Insert, On-Insert, Post-Insert• Pre-Delete, On-Delete, Post-Delete

Validation Triggers

• When-Validate-Item• When-Validate-Record

Query Triggers

• Post-Query• Non-base table population• Running totals

• Pre-Query• Modify query

Transactional Triggers

• Insert, Delete, Update• Pre-• Post-• On-

The Best of the Rest

• When-Create-Record• When-Remove-Record• When-Button-Pressed (UI processing – later)

D E M O N S T R A T I O N

Adding “trigger” code

Searching and Querying

• Parameterize search form• ADF Search Form• ADF provides option to “ExecuteWithParams”

• Execute Query

D E M O N S T R A T I O N

Adding search code

D E M O N S T R A T I O N

Calling a stored procedure

Next Level – UI Processing

• Auto Submit• Conditional UI processing

• Expression Language validation• Backing/Managed Beans

• “Stacked canvases”• Conditional page flow

Auto Submit

• HTML UI validates only on POST• ADF Faces provides Partial Page Rendering• AutoSubmit submits page when field changed• PartialTrigger defines fields that re-act to changes

D E M O N S T R A T I O N

Auto Submit

Conditional UI Processing

• JSF Expression Language (EL)• Backing/Managed Beans

Stacked Canvas

• <af:switcher>• Number of facets• Each facet is a “canvas”• Property to defines which

canvas to render

D E M O N S T R A T I O N

Stacked Canvas

Conditional Page Flow

• Button action returns a string• When-Button-Pressed

• Define page flow based on runtime criteria

D E M O N S T R A T I O N

Conditional Page Flow

Summary

• ADF provides Forms developers with• All your favorite triggers• Many of the common Forms concepts

• Stacked canvases• Defining search criteria• Conditional page flow

• And a lot more besides!

• JDeveloper and ADF continue to provide more and more productivity features for Forms developers

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