Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials -- Table of Contents -- Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- 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.