Developing Web Applications with,Oracle ADF Essentials电子书

Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials

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Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

The prescription

Off-label use

Allergies

What's not there

The sample application

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. My First ADF Essentials Application

Getting ready

Installing MySQL

MySQL installation

Configuring

Changing MySQL options

Does it work?

Modifying some data

Installing Java Development Kit and GlassFish

Installing JDK 7

Installing GlassFish

GlassFish installation

Setting up the domain

Does it work?

Installing the MySQL connector in GlassFish

Adding a DataSource to GlassFish

Installing ADF Essentials

Getting ADF Essentials

Installing the ADF Share libraries in GlassFish

Setting the GlassFish JVM parameters

Does it work?

Installing JDeveloper

JDeveloper or Eclipse?

Which JDeveloper?

JDeveloper installation

Installing the MySQL Connector in JDeveloper

Installing the GlassFish Server Extension

Connecting to the GlassFish server

Building a simple ADF Essentials application

Creating the application

Database

Business service

Model layer

Controller layer

View layer

Getting ready to deploy

DataSource

Application module configuration

Change platform

Running your first ADF Essentials application

Can it run faster?

Setting up WebLogic for MySQL

Adding a DataSource to WebLogic

Running your first ADF Essentials application again

Summary

2. Creating Business Services

Business service possibilities

ADF Business Components

Starting the example application

How ADF business components work

Building your own foundation

Building framework extension classes

Using framework extension classes

Building entity objects for the example application

Preparing to build

Running the wizard

Examining the result

Setting the labels

Autogenerated values

Cleaning up the data types

Cleaning up the associations

Deleting superfluous associations

Fixing wrong associations

Removing invalid references from entity objects

Building view objects

The storyboard

Building the customer view object

Building the rental view object

Creating a view link

Application module

Testing business components

Summary

3. Creating Task Flows and Pages

Building task flows

Bounded and unbounded task flows

Pages and fragments

Task flow templates

Example application

Building the Rent DVD task flow

Building the Return DVD task flow

Memory scopes

Other elements of task flows

Building pages

Using templates

Facet definitions

Page fragment template

Page template

Example application

Building the customer search page

Building the Return DVD page

An alternative – ADF query panel

Building the Rent DVD page

Building a master page

Running the page

Using data bindings

Showing a customer on a page

Showing customer rentals on a page

Adding navigation

Summary

4. Adding Business Logic

Adding logic to business components

Logic in entity objects

Overriding accessors

Working with database triggers

Overriding doDML()

Data validation

Declarative validation

Regular expression validation

Groovy scripts

Method validation

Logic in view objects

Overriding accessors

Change view criteria

Logic in application modules

Adding logic to the user interface

Adding a bean method to a button

Adding a bean to a task flow

Accessing UI components from beans

Accessing the binding layer

Working with attribute values

Working with operations

Working with whole datasets

Showing messages

Example application

Registering a rental

Creating a bean

Mapping the fields

Establishing bindings

Writing the code

Registering a return

Adding a column and a button

Creating a bean

Mapping the table

Creating a view object method

Publishing your method

Establishing bindings

Writing the bean code

Marking items returned today

Creating a transient attribute

Binding the new attribute

Coding the attribute return value

Using the attribute value

Other ideas

Summary

5. Building Enterprise Applications

Structuring your code

Workspaces and projects

The workspace hierarchy

The directory structure

Using version control

Working with ADF libraries

Creating ADF libraries

Releasing ADF libraries

Using ADF libraries

Example application

Creating the Master Application Workspace

Creating the workspace

Adding to source control

Creating the ADF library folder

Creating the CommonCode workspace

Creating the workspace

Recreating the framework extension classes

Check your JDeveloper preferences

Adding to source control

Creating the ADF library

Releasing the ADF library

Creating the CommonUI workspace

Creating the workspace

Creating the templates

Adding an ADF library

Adding to source control

Creating and releasing the ADF library

Creating the CommonModel workspace

Creating the workspace

Adding an ADF library

Creating the entity objects

Adding to source control and creating the ADF library

Creating the RentDvd subsystem workspace

Creating the workspace

Adding ADF libraries

Creating the view object

Creating the application module

Creating the task flow and page fragment

Adding a binding

Adding the business logic

Remaining work

Creating the ReturnDvd subsystem workspace

Creating the workspace

Adding ADF libraries

Creating the Customer view object

Creating the Rental view object

Creating a View Link

Creating an application module

Creating the task flow

Creating the Customer Search Page Fragment

Creating the Rentals Page Fragment

Registering a return

Remaining work

Finishing the Master Application Workspace

Adding the ADF libraries

Create the master page

Summary

6. Debugging ADF Applications

ADF logging

Creating a logger

Adding log statements

Business logging

JDeveloper shortcuts

Reading the logs

Logging in GlassFish

Controlling domain logging

Controlling individual loggers

Debugging in JDeveloper

Debugging code

Understanding the ADF lifecycle

Debugging task flows

Debugging into ADF libraries

Creating a source directory

Creating a source JAR file

Including the source in the master application

Placing a breakpoint in an ADF library

Debugging into the ADF source code

Summary

7. Securing an ADF Essentials Application

Apache Shiro basics

Getting the software

Installing the packages in your application

Configuring your application for Shiro

Advanced Shiro

User database

Form-based authentication

The login page

The login bean

The login method

The user filter

The Shiro configuration

Accessing the user

Implementing authorization

Can I see some ID, please?

Are you a member, Sir?

Disabling elements

Removing elements

Securing task flows

Summary

8. Build and Deploy

Creating a build script

Creating the script

Deploying a single application

Building the master application

Starting point

Building the application EAR file

Building all the subsystems

Copying all ADF libraries

Putting it all together

Automated deployment to GlassFish

Deploying from the command line

Deploying from Ant

Integrating other functionality in your build

Preparing to go live

Cleaning up your code

Database connections

Deployment platforms

Print statements

Tuning your ADF application

Summary

Index