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Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development Made Simple: Second Edition

Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development Made Simple: Second Edition

By : Sten E Vesterli
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Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development Made Simple: Second Edition

Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development Made Simple: Second Edition

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By: Sten E Vesterli
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development – Made Simple Second Edition
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Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development – Made Simple Second Edition
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
Acknowledgment
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Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
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Preface
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Preface
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The ADF Proof of Concept
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The ADF Proof of Concept
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Understanding the architecture of ADF
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The Proof of Concept
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The Proof of Concept case study
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Getting started with JDeveloper
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The Proof of Concept ADF Business Components
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The Proof of Concept ADF user interface
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The scheduled tasks page
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Summary
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Estimating the Effort
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Estimating the Effort
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Gathering requirements
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Deciding how to build it
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Application architecture
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Example Work Breakdown Structure
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Estimating the solution
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Adding it all up – the final estimate
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Sanity check
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From effort to calendar time
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Summary
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Getting Organized
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Getting Organized
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Skills required for an ADF project
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Organizing the team
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Gathering the tools
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Structuring workspaces, projects, and code
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Naming conventions
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Summary
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Productive Teamwork
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Productive Teamwork
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The secret of productivity
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Version control with Subversion
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Version control with Git
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Avoiding conflicts
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Focusing for maximum productivity
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The Integrated Solution – Oracle Team Productivity Center
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Working with Oracle Team Productivity Center
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Summary
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Preparing to Build
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Preparing to Build
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Creating common workspaces
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Working with task flow templates
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Working with page templates
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Framework extension classes
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Packaging your common code
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Summary
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Building the Enterprise Application
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Building the Enterprise Application
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Structuring your code
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Building the Common Model
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Organizing the work
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Implementing the task management subsystem
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Implementing the scheduling subsystem
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Building the master application
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Summary
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Testing Your Application
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Testing Your Application
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Initial tests
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User interface tests
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Stress and performance tests
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The Oracle alternative
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Summary
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Changing the Appearance
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Changing the Appearance
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Controlling appearance
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Skinning overview
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Skinning in practice
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Summary
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Customizing Functionality
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Customizing Functionality
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The reason for customization
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The technology behind ADF customization
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Applying customization layers
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Making an application customizable
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Performing customization
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Securing Your ADF Application
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Securing Your ADF Application
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The security basics
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Security decisions
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Implementing ADF Security
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Application roles
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Implementing the user interface security
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Implementing data security
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Users and groups
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Packaging and Delivery
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Packaging and Delivery
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The contents of a good deployment package
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Preparing for deployment
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Setting up the application server
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Deploying the application
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Scripting the build process
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Internationalization
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Internationalization
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Automatic internationalization
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Running your localized application
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Localizing formats
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More internationalization
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Controlling appearance

An ADF Faces application is a modern web application, so the technology used for controlling the look of the application is Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

The idea behind CSS is that the web page (in HTML) should contain only the structure and not information about appearance. All of the visual definitions must be kept in the style sheet, and the HTML file must refer to the style sheet. This means that the same web page can be made to look completely different by applying a different style sheet to it.

The Cascading Style Sheets basics

In order to change the appearance of your application, you need to understand some CSS basics. If you have never worked with CSS before, you should start by reading one of the many CSS tutorials available on the Internet.

To start with, let's repeat some of the basics of CSS.

The CSS layout instructions are written in the form of rules. Each rule is in the following form:

selector { property: value; }

The selector function identifies which part...

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