ORACLE ADF - Putting It Together

Task Flow Editor Enhancements

By david.giammona on September 25, 2009 10:12 AM

If you've been poking around the Task Flow Editor in the new release of JDeveloper 11g (11.1.1.2), you might have noticed some of the following cool new enhancements: Bounded Task Flow Identifier There's now an easy way to identify if...

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Task Flow Call Activity Run As Dialog Using a Popup

By david.giammona on September 25, 2009 9:44 AM

In the previous JDeveloper 11g release, it was possible to declaratively define a task flow call activity to be "Run As a Dialog". When using this approach, the dialogs presented at runtime could only be displayed as external windows. Implementation...

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Dynamically Assign TaskFlowId to Task Flow Call Activity

By david.giammona on September 25, 2009 9:32 AM

Previously, the Task Flow Reference (TaskFlowId) of a task flow call activity was required to be statically assigned at design time. However, this often brought challenges when the task flow to call was not known until runtime. In these...

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New Features in the ADF Debugger

By david.giammona on September 25, 2009 8:41 AM

In the new release of JDeveloper 11g (11.1.1.2), the ADF Debugger has some very helpful new features.  Check these out, if you haven't already taken them for a spin...Page Definition Breakpoints Page definition breakpoints were available in the prior release...

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What Approach Should I Use for ADF Regions to Share Data or Initiate Navigation?

By david.giammona on January 23, 2009 9:25 AM

ADF Regions provide a great deal of application flexibility. Yet, when implementing ADF Regions that same flexibility often leaves the pensive developer wondering how best to share data or initiate navigation. Many different technologies come together to provide these types...

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How Are “Empty” Regions Implemented?

By david.giammona on November 20, 2008 3:57 PM

There might be times when ADF Region content should not be displayed on a runtime page. Instead, the page should appear blank where the region was previously located. This is really easy to implement, but it’s not really the region...

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When Are Regions & Dynamic Regions Refreshed?

By david.giammona on November 20, 2008 2:02 PM

Regions and dynamic regions are initially refreshed in the ADF Lifecycle prepareModel phase when the binding container of the containing page is refreshed. On subsequent requests, the region or dynamic region will be refreshed during the ADF Lifecycle prepareRender phase...

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How Do I Initiate Region Navigation From the Parent Page?

By david.giammona on November 17, 2008 4:26 PM

There are often cases when a page requires some type of interaction with one or more of its regions. If the interaction depends on application data being shared between the two, typically either input parameters or a <data-control-scope> of "shared"...

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How Do I Include a Region Within an <af:popup>?

By david.giammona on November 17, 2008 4:10 PM

Regions can be incorporated into ADF Faces popup content to support tasks requiring complex navigation through a series of pages. Another important benefit of including regions within ADF Faces popups is content reuse. These great benefits make ADF Faces popups...

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Introducing the New ADF Declarative Debugger!

By david.giammona on November 14, 2008 2:20 PM

For my very first blog entry (WooHoo!), I want to share with you something NEW and EXCITING in the world of ADF application development. If you’ve had a chance to download Oracle JDeveloper 11g for a test drive, I’m guessing...

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