Product Description

Written by the most knowledgeable Oracle JDeveloper author team in the world

This Oracle Press guide shows how to build Web applications using the Fusion Middleware development tool, Oracle JDeveloper. The book discusses the latest technologies and explains how to develop code using multiple techniques.

Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook: A Guide to Fusion Web Development covers the Oracle Application Development Framework and JavaServer Faces. Hands-on practice examples walk you through the creation of a complete sample application that employs highly-interactive user interface components and declarative development methods. You will learn the techniques required to implement Fusion-oriented software solutions in JDeveloper.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35126 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 912 pages

From the Back Cover
A Complete Guide to Oracle Fusion Web Development with Oracle JDeveloper 11g

Written by world-renowned Oracle JDeveloper experts, this exclusive Oracle Press resource shows you how to build Java Platform, Enterprise Edition web applications using Oracle JDeveloper 11g, Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF), and JavaServer Faces. Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook walks you through the creation of a complete sample application that employs highly interactive user interface components and declarative development methods. Learn the techniques required to implement Oracle Fusion-oriented solutions using Oracle JDeveloper 11g from this hands-on guide.

• Work in the Oracle JDeveloper 11g Integrated Development Environment
• Create business services with Oracle ADF Business Components
• Develop entity object definitions that represent database objects and encapsulate business logic
• Create components that query database data
• Encapsulate complex data operations
• Build JavaServer Faces applications
• Work with the Oracle ADF Controller and Task Flows
• Enable high interactivity with Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client
• Bind the user interface to the business services layer using Oracle ADF Model
• Learn design principles and best practices for working with Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle ADF

About the Author

Duncan Mills is the director of product management for Oracle JDeveloper.

Peter Koletzke, Oracle Certified Master, is a technical director and principal instructor for the Enterprise e-Commerce Solutions practice at Quovera.

Avrom Roy-Faderman, Ph.D., is a senior J2EE developer and senior instructor for the Enterprise e-Commerce Solutions practice at Quovera.

Customer Reviews

A disappointing tutorial
I was hoping for a book that would provide an in-depth discussion of applying this technology to my business problem. And frankly, I am disappointed. I suppose that my chief disappointment is that the book seems to digress too quickly into a tutorial. For example, I was interested in how to use a popup dialog box. There is no coverage of popup dialog boxes outside the chapters where one builds a sample application. Another of the key concepts that separates ADF Faces technology from Java Server Faces is the built in partial page rendering available in the ADF components. The authors devote one page to a general discussion of the technology, glossing over some important details in my opinion, then digress into another series of tutorials. While tutorials are great if I am building the sample application, everyone I speak with agrees that tutorials generally fall short when it comes to applying the technology to real business problems. Additionally, no place that I have worked is interested in paying you while you build the sample application in order to learn the technology. We need books that allow us to quickly apply the technology to our business problems. In my case, my business problem is more complex than simple master detail relationships and persisting data to a database. Perhaps my review would be more positive if my business problem were that simple.

Another place where the book falls short is that it fails to discuss the what the various controls on the property inspector are for, leaving us guessing and in many cases simply wondering.

If you are looking for a reasonably good tutorial, showing you how to build a typical CRUD application backed by a database, then this might be for you. If you are looking for an in depth discussion of the technology, and guidance in making design decisions for your own application, you are likely to be disappointed.

I come from a web development background having done Java EE for more than 6 years, including HTML, Java Script, JSP, EJB, and JDBC to name a few technologies. I have worked in all layers from the database to the user interface, using JDeveloper, Eclipse, and WebSphere to name a few integrated development environments I have worked in. So I am not new to web development on the Java platform.

In short, this book disappointed me. I still think the market needs a good book on applying this promising technology.

Only partially helpful--too much reference and tutorial focus
I really wanted and was hoping for a book that covers the ADF architecture and design concepts from a technical perspective and then shows how JDeveloper supports this. While this book did have some of that, it was fairly limited in that regard.

Unfortunately I found it to be *extremely* verbose in the early chapters, most of which was not really helpful. That is, an unbelievable amount of "explaining how we're going to explain the stuff which we will be explaining", and a lot of rehashing reference-type material which one can find anywhere. For example, I don't need this book to tell me how many panels JDeveloper has, what menu items they have, and what they are for--its own user guide does that well enough. So I definitely did a lot of skimming--by no means is it worth reading the whole 800+ pages.

The later chapters are essentially a series of mini-tutorials followed by a large comprehensive tutorial in the back, but given all the tutorials on the intranet, this probably isn't such a big selling point either.

As a previous reviewer has said, going through tutorials has limited value--you'll learn something, but the book should have spent more time teaching the technical concepts (e.g. the "why" and "how" questions, along with smaller supporting examples), which would have been more helpful in applying this technology to our own business needs.

Amaizin Book
One of the best book and really handbook.
thanks oracle and the guys work there to create this technology.