Oracle ADF Survival Guide

Sten Vesterli picked up Oracle development as his first job after graduating from the Technical University of Denmark and hasn't looked back since then. He has worked with almost every development tool Oracle has produced in the last several decades, including ADF, APEX, JET, Application Developer Cloud Service, JDeveloper, SQL Developer, Oracle Portal, Oracle WebDB, Oracle BPEL, Collaboration Suite, Designer, Forms, Reports, and even Oracle Power Objects. Sten started sharing his knowledge with a conference presentation in 1997 and has since given hundreds of conference presentations at Oracle OpenWorld and at ODTUG, IOUG, UKOUG, DOAG, DOUG, and other user group conferences around the world. His presentations are highly rated by the participants, and he has received the ODTUG Best Speaker award twice. Sten has also written numerous articles for Oracle Profit, Oracle Scene, and many other publications. This is Sten's third book on Oracle ADF; before this one, he wrote Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development - Made Simple and Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials. Oracle has recognized Sten's skills as an expert communicator on Oracle technology by awarding him the prestigious title, Oracle ACE Director, carried by only around 100 people in the world. An independent consultant based in Denmark, Sten works with customers worldwide, helping them get the most from their investment in Oracle software. In his spare time, Sten enjoys triathlons and is working toward his private pilot license.

Quickly get up to speed with Oracle's Application Development Framework (ADF). Rapidly build modern, user-friendly applications that will be easy to re-use, expand, and maintain.
Oracle ADF Survival Guide covers the latest 12c version and explains all the important concepts and parts, including ADF Faces, ADF Task Flows, ADF Business Components, ADF Skins, the new Alta UI, and how to implement business logic in all layers of the application.  Organizations with existing investments in Oracle database and Oracle Forms applications will be able to leverage Oracle's best practice for application development in moving those applications to the ADF framework. The book:

• Explains all parts of the ADF stack 
  
• Shows how to integrate with databases and web services
  
• Demonstrates the best practice for ADF enterprise architecture
  

What You Will Learn

• Rapidly build great-looking, user-friendly screens
  
• Build page flows visually for improved communication with business users 
  
• Easily connect your user interface to databases and other back-end systems
  
• Leverage the best practice for productive team development
  
• Establish a solid enterprise architecture for maximum reuse and maintainability 
  
• Automate your build and deployment process

Who This Book Is For
Experienced developers who want to rapidly become productive with Oracle's Application Development Framework (ADF) 12c. It is for Oracle Forms and database developers working for organizations who have followed Oracle's strategic direction to ADF, as well as for experienced Java developers who want to learn Oracle's highly-productive, JSF framework. 

Tagline: Building model-view-controller applications that are easy to reuse and maintain

Oracle ADF is a commercial framework from Oracle for creating enterprise applications in the Java language. ADF is widely used in Oracle's own internal efforts, ensuring its long term support and viability as a platform. This book, the Oracle ADF Survival Guide enables experienced developers to rapidly become productive with ADF, helping them build modern, user-friendly applications that will be easy to re-use, expand and maintain. The book also helps organizations with existing investments in Oracle database and Oracle Forms applications to leverage Oracle's best practice for application development in moving those applications to the ADF framework.

Introduction.- 1. Drag and Drop Building.- 2. ADF Enterprise Architecture.- 3. Layout and Skins.- 4. Business Logic.- 5. Presentation Logic.- 6. Logging and Debugging.- 7. Your ADF Workflow.