11.1 Introduction to Complex UI Components

ADF Faces components simplify user interaction. For example, inputFile enables file uploading, and selectInputText has built-in dialog support for navigating to a popup window and returning to the initial page with the selected value. While most of the ADF Faces components can be used out-of-the-box with minimal Java coding, some of them require extra coding in backing beans and configuring in faces-config.xml.

While the SRDemo pages use a custom skin, the descriptions of the rendered UI components and the illustrations in this chapter follow the default Oracle skin.

Read this chapter to understand:

How to create dynamic navigation menus using a menu model
How to create popup dialogs using command components
How to enable partial page rendering explicitly using partial triggers and events
How to create a multipage process using a process train model
How to provide file upload support
How to create dropdown lists with static and dynamic list of values
How to create a shuttle for displaying and selecting items