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Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Introduction to ADF Swing Applications

• 1.1 About ADF Swing
  • 1.1.1 Advantages of Using ADF Swing
  • 1.1.2 ADF Swing Architecture
    • 1.1.2.1 Swing MVC
    • 1.1.2.2 Oracle Application Development Framework
• 1.2 Creating a Desktop Application That Works with Oracle ADF
• 1.3 What Happens When You Create a Desktop Application with ADF Swing
• 1.4 Connecting to Business Components
  • 1.4.1 How to Modify the Configuration Name
  • 1.4.2 How to Modify the Configuration File
  • 1.4.3 What You May Need to Know About the Client Application Libraries

2 Creating ADF Swing Forms and Panels

• 2.1 About Creating ADF Swing Forms and Panels
  • 2.1.1 ADF Swing Design Time Wizards
  • 2.1.2 A Typical ADF Swing Form
  • 2.1.3 Navigation in an ADF Swing Form
• 2.2 Process for Creating ADF Swing Panels and Forms
• 2.3 What Happens When You Create an ADF Swing Form
• 2.4 What You May Need to Know About ADF Swing Code Generation
• 2.5 What You May Need to Know About Business Components Attribute Settings
• 2.6 How to Create a Client Data Model Definition
• 2.7 How to Create a Single Table ADF Swing Form
• 2.8 How to Create a Master-Detail ADF Swing Form
• 2.9 How to Create an Empty ADF Swing Form
• 2.10 How to Create an Empty ADF Swing Panel
• 2.11 How to Create ADF Swing Edit Forms from the Data Controls Panel
• 2.12 How to Create ADF Swing Forms from the Databases Window

3 Modifying ADF Swing Forms and Panels

• 3.1 About Modifying ADF Swing Forms and Panels
  • 3.1.1 Value Bindings for the Entire Collection or Data Object
  • 3.1.2 Value Bindings for Individual Data Object Attribute Values
• 3.2 How to Assemble ADF Swing Forms Using the Java Visual Editor
• 3.3 How to Insert UI Components into ADF Swing Panels
• 3.4 How to Change Client Data Model References
• 3.5 How to Open an ADF Swing Form with an Action Handler
• 3.6 How to Drop Data Panels Onto an Empty ADF Swing Form
• 3.7 How to Lay Out Data Panels in an Empty Swing Form
• 3.8 Binding a Method with Parameters in an ADF Swing Form
  • 3.8.1 How to Populate the Data Controls Panel with JavaBean Methods
  • 3.8.2 How to Create an ADF Swing Form with Method Bindings
  • 3.8.3 What You May Need to Know About Displaying a Method Result Using a JTable Component

4 Working with Data Binding

• 4.1 About Working With Data Binding
  • 4.1.1 ADF Swing Containers
  • 4.1.2 Standard Java Containers
• 4.2 Navigating the UI Using ADF Swing Controls
  • 4.2.1 How to Navigate Using the Navigation Bar
  • 4.2.2 How to Navigate Using Tree Navigation
• 4.3 What You May Need to Know About the ADF Swing Data Context
• 4.4 What Happens at Runtime: How Panel Bindings Function
• 4.5 What You May Need to Know About the ADF Swing Bootstrap Code
• 4.6 How to Display Object Attributes in a Databound Text Field
• 4.7 How to Create a New Row in a Databound Table or Tree Control
• 4.8 How to Sort Columns in a Databound Table
• 4.9 What Happens At Runtime: How Control Bindings Function
  • 4.9.1 Populating Controls with Data
  • 4.9.2 Updating Data through Controls

5 Customizing ADF Bindings

• 5.1 About Customizing ADF Bindings
• 5.2 How to Customize ADF Bindings for ADF Swing Panels
• 5.3 How to Customize an ADF Action Binding
• 5.4 How to Customize an ADF Attribute Binding
• 5.5 How to Customize an ADF Array Combobox Binding
• 5.6 How to Customize an ADF Boolean Binding
• 5.7 How to Customize an ADF Bounded Range Binding
• 5.8 How to Customize an ADF Formatted Text Field Binding
• 5.9 How to Customize an ADF Iterator Binding
• 5.10 How to Customize an ADF List Binding
• 5.11 How to Customize an ADF List Binding in Enumeration Mode
• 5.12 How to Customize an ADF List Binding in LOV Mode
• 5.13 How to Customize an ADF LOV Button Binding
• 5.14 What You May Need to Know About the LOV Dialog
• 5.15 How to Customize an ADF Scroll Binding
• 5.16 How to Customize an ADF Table Binding
• 5.17 How to Customize an ADF Tree Binding

6 Displaying Graphs in ADF Swing Panels

• 6.1 About Graphs in ADF Swing Panels
• 6.2 How to Create a Graph for an ADF Swing Panel
• 6.3 What Happens When You Create a Graph Component
• 6.4 How to Customize the Graph Component
• 6.5 How to Change Graph Data

7 Working with ADF Swing Controls

• 7.1 About ADF Swing-Specific Controls
• 7.2 How to Use the JUArrayComboBox Control
• 7.3 How to Use the JUImage Control
• 7.4 What You May Need to Know About Multimedia in ADF Swing Applications
• 7.5 How to Use the JULabel Control
• 7.6 How to Use the Label For Control
• 7.7 How to Use the JULovEditButton Control
• 7.8 How to Use the JUNavigationBar Control
• 7.9 How to Use the JUNavigationBar Control with Find Mode
• 7.10 How to Disable Find Mode for ADF Swing Controls in a Panel
• 7.11 What You May Need to Know About Iterator Bindings in Find Mode
• 7.12 How to Use the JURadioButtonGroupPanel Control
• 7.13 How to Use the JUShuttlePanel Control
• 7.14 How to Use the JUStatusBar Control

8 Using Validation in the ADF Swing User Interface

• 8.1 About Validating Events
• 8.2 How to Use Validation With ADF Control Bindings
• 8.3 How to Use Validation With ADF Swing Panels

9 Working with an ADF Swing Login Dialog

• 9.1 About the ADF Swing Login Dialog
• 9.2 How to Create a Login Dialog
• 9.3 How to Run the Application Using the Login Dialog
• 9.4 How to Run the Application Without the Login Dialog
• 9.5 What You May Need to Know About Customizing the Login Dialog Code
• 9.6 How to Modify the Login Dialog to Work with a JDBC Connection

10 Optimizing ADF Swing Application Runtime Performance

• 10.1 About Optimizing ADF Swing Application Runtime Performance
• 10.2 How to Delay Updates to ADF Business Components from ADF Swing
• 10.3 What You May Need to Know About the Sync Mode Property
• 10.4 How to Limit Fetching of ADF Business Components Attributes in ADF Swing

11 Using Java Web Start With ADF Swing Applications

• 11.1 About Working with Java Web Start
  • 11.1.1 Java Web Start Technology
  • 11.1.2 Java Web Start and Integrated WebLogic Server
  • 11.1.3 Java Web Start and Oracle WebLogic Server
• 11.2 How to Define ADF Business Components Runtime Properties
• 11.3 How to Set Up Runtime Configuration Information
• 11.4 How to Create a Java Web Start JNLP Definition
• 11.5 What Happens When You Create a JNLP Definition
• 11.6 How to Run ADF Swing Applications with Java Web Start in JDeveloper