2 Overview of Development Process with Oracle ADF and JSF

This chapter highlights the typical development process for using Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 3 (10.1.3) to build web applications using Oracle ADF and JSF, using Oracle ADF Business Components to implement the business service layer.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Section 2.1, "Introduction to the Development Process"

• Section 2.2, "Creating an Application Workspace to Hold Your Files"

• Section 2.3, "Thinking About the Use Case and Page Flow"

• Section 2.4, "Designing the Database Schema"

• Section 2.5, "Creating a Layer of Business Domain Objects for Tables"

• Section 2.6, "Building the Business Service to Handle the Use Case"

• Section 2.7, "Dragging and Dropping Data to Create a New JSF Page"

• Section 2.8, "Examining the Binding Metadata Files Involved"

• Section 2.9, "Understanding How Components Reference Bindings via EL"

• Section 2.10, "Configuring Binding Properties If Needed"

• Section 2.11, "Understanding How Bindings Are Created at Runtime"

• Section 2.12, "Making the Display More Data-Driven"

• Section 2.13, "Adding the Edit Page and Finishing the Use Case"

• Section 2.14, "Considering How Much Code Was Involved"