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Here's a common thing that many Forms developers who move to ADF run into - you have a field that is a code and you want to display the translation of the code in the field next to it when the code is entered. In forms you use the when-validate-item trigger to do this usually.

Well in ADF one way to do it is to define a view object that is based on the Entity object of both the core and code tables. For example a VO that is based on Employees as the updateable EO and on Departments as a reference EO that is used to translate the deptId in the Employee table.
Once you did this - you want to add the ability in your JSF ADF page to populate the description field with the department name once someone fills out the departmentId.

Here is a quick demo of how you would do this - it's a very basic partial page rendering technique: