Implementing the Tree Navigation Oracle Alta UI Design Pattern
The Oracle Alta UI design patterns offer many new approaches for navigation in your application as you can see in the navigation patterns section. One of those is the Tree Navigation pattern - which is...
View ArticleDynamically refresh a part of a page (PPR) in Oracle MAF
A common question for developers who are just starting with Oracle MAF, especially if they have a background in Oracle ADF, is how do you do a partial page refresh in Oracle MAF.Partial Page Refresh...
View ArticleUsing the Oracle Developer Cloud Service for Git version management for...
The Oracle Developer Cloud Service (DevCS for short) provides a complete cloud-hosted development platform for your team. This makes it very easy to start adopting development best practices for your...
View ArticleOracle Developer Cloud Service - Automating Builds for Oracle ADF Applications
Following up on the previous blog that showed how to get your ADF application into the Developer Cloud Service git repository, this entry will show you the next step in the lifecycle - executing...
View ArticleLeveraging Icon Fonts (Font Awesome) in Oracle ADF - 500 New Icons for your app
Icon fonts are a growing trend among web developers, they make it quite simple to add icons to your web site and resize them for better responsive design.Font Awesome is a popular open source icon font...
View ArticleLeveraging Oracle Developer Cloud Service in SQL and PL/SQL Projects -...
Usually my demos are targeted at Java developers, but I realize that a lot of developers out there are not using Java, for example in the Oracle install base there is a huge section of PLSQL...
View ArticleHot Deployment in JDeveloper 12c - Don't Stop/Start Your App
Old habits are hard to get rid off, and I still see long time users of JDeveloper (and also many new users) who are stopping/starting their application on the embedded WebLogic each time that they make...
View ArticleOOW and JavaOne 2015 - Where I'll Be
It's that time of the year again, and next week is going to be crazy busy for us at Oracle OpenWorld and at JavaOne.In case you want to catch me, here is a list of the locations where I'll be:Building...
View ArticleIntroducing the Masonry Layout in Oracle ADF 12.2.1
One of the focus areas for Oracle ADF 12.2.1 was simplifying the creation of responsive UIs, and one of the new components that supports this is the af:masonryLayout component. It allows you to define...
View ArticleResponsive UI in Oracle ADF 12.2.1 with the MatchMediaBehavior Tag
Another very powerful addition to the responsive capabilities of ADF Faces in version 12.2.1 is the new af:matchMediaBehavior tag. It allows you to control almost every bit of your UI and change...
View ArticleREST based CRUD with Oracle ADF Business Components
A key new feature in Oracle ADF 12.2.1 is the ability to expose ADF Business Components through REST/JSON interfaces.REST/JSON is the preferred interface for many client side UI technologies to access...
View ArticleRemote TaskFlows/Remote Region - For Advanced Reusability in Oracle ADF
A new feature in Oracle ADF 12.2.1 is Remote TaskFlows (or Remote Regions) - this allows one application to have regions inside it that are populated from taskflows that are running as part of another...
View ArticleEnabling CORS for ADF Business Component REST Services
CORS (which stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is a setting that will enable your REST services running on one server to be invoked from applications running on another server.I first...
View ArticleDoughnut Chart - a Yummy Addition to Oracle ADF Faces
Another new feature in Oracle ADF 12.2.1 is the new Doughnut Chart capability.It looks like this:When I first tried to create this one, I couldn't find the option for doughnut chart in the JDeveloper...
View ArticleDeveloping with Oracle MAF and Oracle ADF Business Components - The REST Edition
When Oracle ADF Mobile was released over 3 years ago, one of the first blogs I created on this topic showed how to leverage Oracle ADF Business Components to access a server database and create a...
View ArticleAgile Development with Oracle Developer Cloud Service and JDeveloper 12.2.1
I blogged in the past about using Oracle Developer Cloud Service (DevCS) together with JDeveloper/ADF to manage your code and automate your builds.Since I wrote those blog entries, we released a new...
View ArticleFirst Steps with Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service
Last week we released a new cloud service - the Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service.(I'll refer to is as ABCS here to keep it short).ABCS is built for the non-professional developer, what some...
View ArticleApplication Builder Cloud Service - Menus, Buttons and Validation
Continuing with the exploration of Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service, I've picked up the application I created in the previous blog entry and added a few more things to demo how to:Configure the...
View ArticleOTN Interview about Application Development with Oracle
A few weeks ago, I set down with Bob from OTN for an interview that covered some of the key products our group works on.I covered the various frameworks (ADF, JET, MAF), what we are doing with cloud...
View ArticleCalling REST Services from Application Builder Cloud Service
One of the frequent requests we get when we demo ABCS is - can I invoke some external functionality that is exposed as a REST service and pass parameters to it.Well, with a minimal amount of JavaScript...
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