What's New in This Guide for Release 11.1.1.7.2

For Release 11.1.1.7.2, this guide has been updated in several ways. The following table lists the sections that have been added or changed.

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Sections	Changes Made
Chapter 4, "Creating a Business Domain Layer Using Entity Objects"
Section 4.12.6, "What You May Need to Know About Custom Entity Object Methods"	Section added to describe how to avoid dependencies on application modules and view objects in the methods that you implement in custom entity object classes.
Chapter 5, "Defining SQL Queries Using View Objects"
Section 5.11.10.5, "Searching for Rows Using a Date Comparison"	Section added to describe valid date comparison operators used in view criteria.
Section 5.12, "Working with Row Finders"	Section added to describe row finder use cases and limitations.
Section 5.13.6, "How to Automatically Refresh the View Object of the View Accessor"	Section revised to enhance the description of the restrictions that apply when enabling the Auto Refresh option for view objects.
Chapter 11, "Integrating Service-Enabled Application Modules"
Section 11.2.1, "How to Enable the Application Module Service Interface"	Section revised to describe the use of the built-in methods in the Create Service Interface wizard.
Section 11.2.15, "How to Set Display Names for Service View Instances and Attributes"	Section added to describe how to set display name UI hints for view objects and view object attributes that have the getDfltObjAttrHints() built-in method configured on their service view instance.
Chapter 18, "Creating Complex Task Flows"
Section 18.4, "Managing Transactions"	Section revised to describe how choosing the <No Controller Transaction> option from a task flow's overview editor turns off the transaction management capabilities of the ADF task flow and delegates transaction management to the ADF Model layer.
Section 18.4.3.1, "Creating Completely Separate Transactions"	Section added to describe the interactions that occur when you isolate two bounded task flow transactions completely so that they can be committed or rolled back separately.
Section 18.4.3.2, "Guaranteeing a Called Bounded Task Joins an Existing Transaction"	Section added to describe the interactions that occur when you configure two bounded task flows to share a transaction to save connection resources and stop the transaction if the called bounded task flow cannot join the transaction of the calling bounded task flow.
Section 18.4.3.3, "Using an Existing Transaction if Possible"	Section added to describe the interactions that occur when you call a bounded task flow that joins the transaction of the calling bounded task flow if one exists and, if not, creates its own transaction.
Section 18.4.4, "What You May Need to Know About ADF Business Component Database Connections and Task Flow Transaction Options"	Section added that describes the configuration changes to make if you want to have separate root application modules connect to different data sources within the same ADF Model project
Section 18.10, "Minimizing the Number of Active Root View Ports in an Application"	Section added to describe the new <max-root-view-ports> property that you can use to specify the maximum number of root view ports in an application.
Chapter 23, "Creating ADF Databound Tables"
Section 23.5, "Creating a List View of a Collection"	Section added to describe the new wizard available to create databound listView components.
Chapter 24, "Displaying Master-Detail Data"
Section 24.6, "Using List Views to Display Master-Detail Objects"	Section added to describe creating a databound master-detail view with the listView component.
Chapter 26, Creating Databound ADF Data Visualization Components
Section 26.6, "Creating Databound Thematic Maps"	Section added to describe how to create and configure thematic maps using ADF data controls.
Section 26.9.1, "How to Create a Databound Hierarchy Viewer"	Section revised to reflect changes in the Create Hierarchy Viewer dialog.
Section 26.9.2, "What Happens When You Create a Databound Hierarchy Viewer"	Section revised to better illustrate the rules for populating the nodes of the master-detail tree of a hierarchy viewer.
Section 26.9.3, "How to Configure an Alternate View Object for a Databound Panel Card"	Section added to describe how to configure an alternate data source for the hierarchy viewer panel card.
Chapter 27, "Creating ADF Databound Search Forms"
Section 27.1.1, "Query Search Forms"	Section revised to describe support for organizing search fields into groups.
Section 27.3.2, "How to Add Placeholder Text, Label, and Tooltip"	Section added to describe how to create watermark, label, and tooltip texts to a search field.
Chapter 30, "Enabling ADF Security in a Fusion Web Application"
Section 30.5.6, "How to Define Policies to Control User Access to ADF Methods"	Section added to describe how to control user access to command components in the user interface that execute ADF methods.
Section 30.5.12, "How to Aggregate Resource Grants as Entitlement Grants"	Section added to describe how to control user access to multiple Oracle ADF artifacts, using a single ADF Security entitlement grant.
Section 30.9.3, "How to Secure Resource Files Using a URL Constraint"	Section added to describe how to control user access to resource files, including images, style sheets, and JavaScript libraries, that support the Fusion web application.
Section 30.11.2, "How to Protect UI Components Using OPSS Resource Permissions and EL"	Section revised to describe how to control user access to UI components in the user interface, using an ADF Security resource grant.
Section 30.11.3, "How to Perform Authorization Checks for Entity Object Operations"	Section added to describe how to use entity row API and ADF Security EL methods to test permission for secured entity object operations.
Chapter 36, "Deploying Fusion Web Applications"
Section 36.4, "Deploying the Application"	Section revised to note the need to set the Serializing Access to the Session Data feature to prevent concurrent access when deploying to IBM WebSphere application server.
Chapter 37, "Advanced Business Component Techniques"
Section 37.8.3.1, "Attributes in an Extended Component Inherited from the Parent Component"	Section added to describe how overriding attributes in an extended component changes the behavior of inheritable attribute changes subsequently made in the parent component.
Chapter 39, "Advanced View Object Techniques"
Section 39.3.3.4, "Avoid Creating Dependencies on Parent Application Module Types"	Section added to describe how to avoid dependencies on application modules and view objects in the methods that you implement in custom view object and view row classes.
Appendix A, "Oracle ADF XML Files"
Section A.11, "adf-config.xml"	Section revised to describe the allow-unbounded-task-flow-customizations property that can be configured to disable support for user specific seeded customization or design time at runtime customization of unbounded task flow metadata in your application.