Building a Business Model

with
ADF Business Components

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do the

following:
Describe the role of ADF Business Components in building
a business service
Explain the architecture of ADF BC
Identify the types of components that cooperate to provide
the business service implementation
Use JDeveloper design-time facilities for ADF BC
Explain how ADF BC components are used in a Web
application

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 Describing ADF Business Components (ADF BC)

ADF Business Components (ADF BC) characteristics:

Provides data interaction and business logic execution
Maps to a data source, such as an Oracle database
Enables 4GL development
Wizard-based or visual development
Implemented in metadata, not code
Enables business logic development
Predefined Java methods for any event
Declarative business rules

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 ADF BC Implementation Architecture

Characteristics of the Business Components layer of ADF:

Based on standard Java and XML
Works with any application server or database
Implements popular design patterns
(Model/View/Controller, Interface/Implementation
Separation, and Session Facade.)
Components are organized into packages
Prebuilt code in two main packages:
oracle.jbo
oracle.jbo.server
Components metadata driven with optional Java code

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 Types of ADF Business Components

StorefrontAM

CustomerEO
Customer CustVO

CustomerOrder
OrderEO

AllOrders OrdVO

View LineItemEO
Objects
Application Module and Entity Objects
with View View and
Object Instances Link Associations

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 Creating ADF Business Components

You can create ADF Business

Components by:
Creating a
Business
Components
Diagram
Using the wizards

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 The Create Business Components from Tables
Wizard: Entity Objects

Specify
Package.
Restrict
query.

Rename
entity.

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 The Create Business Components from Tables
Wizard: Updatable View Objects

Specify
Package.

Rename
view object.

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 The Create Business Components from Tables
Wizard: Read-Only View Objects

Specify
Package.

Rename
view object.

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 The Create Business Components from Tables
Wizard: Application Module

Create an
application
module?
Name
application
module.

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 The Create Business Components from Tables
Wizard: Diagram

Create?

Name
diagram
Choose
objects

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 Examining Created Objects

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 Testing the Data Model

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 Exposing the Application Module to the User
Interface

Oracle ADF Model:

Abstracts service implementation from clients
EJB, Web services, TopLink, Java classes, ADF BC
JSP, mobile
Provides declarative data
binding:
Implements JSR 227
Uses EL (expression
language)
Separates view from
business service
Creates data control
from application module

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:

Describe the role of ADF Business Components in building
a business service
Explain the architecture of ADF BC
Identify the types of components that cooperate to provide
the business service implementation
Use JDeveloper design-time facilities for ADF BC
Explain how ADF BC components are used in a Web
application

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 Practice 4 Overview:
Building a Business Model

This practice covers the following topics:

Using the Business Components from Tables Wizard to
quickly build part of the data model
Testing the model with the Business Components Browser

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