Oracle ADF Training Course -Application Development Framework 11g

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Oracle Application Development Framework 11g – ADF

The Oracle Application Development Framework 11g Implementation Specialist Certification identifies professionals that are skilled in implementing solutions based on Oracle Fusion technologies, with a skill focus on using Oracle ADF and JDeveloper. The certification covers skills such as: building the data model using ADF Business Components, planning and implementing a user interface with ADF Faces, defining Task Flows, implementing application security, exposing ADF components for use in SOA (BPEL) processes, and implementing data binding controls. The exam targets the intermediate-level to advanced-level implementation team member. Up-to-date training and field experience are highly recommended

Introduction to Fusion and ADF

• Describe Fusion Architecture
• Explain how ADF fits into the Fusion architecture
• Describe the ADF technology stack (MVC)
• Identify sources of additional information about ADF and ADF Business Components

Getting Started with JDeveloper

• Describe benefits that JDeveloper provides for application development
• Utilize common IDE mechanisms when developing and testing components
• Set IDE preferences based on user requirements
• Initiate the creation of empty applications, projects, and connections in JDeveloper

Building a Data Model with ADF Business Components

• 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
• Explain how ADF BC components are used in a Web Application

Querying and Persisting Data

• Describe the characteristics of an ADF BC view object
• Create a view object that can be used for performing a query in a Web application
• Define a SQL statement on which to base a query for a view object
• Explain how entity objects relate to database tables
• Describe the persistence mechanism of entity objects
• Use the Create Entity Object wizard to generate entity objects from database tables
• Create associations between entity objects to represent business relationships
• Create updatable view objects based on entity objects
• Link view objects to one another in a master-detail hierarchy
• Refactor objects in an application

Exposing Data to Clients

• Explain the role of application modules
• Describe the characteristics of application modules
• Use the Create Application Module wizard to define the data model for an application module
• Explain how application modules can manage business components transactions
• Explain how application modules can manage application stateE
• Explain the role of the ADF Model

Declaratively Customizing Data Services

• Declaratively change data behaviour
• Declaratively modify the default behavior of view objects, entity objects, and application modules
• Define a view accessor for a list of values(LOV)
• Define a list of values (LOV) for an attribute

Programmatically Customizing Data Services

• Generate Java classes for business components to modify default behavior programmatically
• Override class methods to change or augment default behavior
• Modify the WHERE clause of a view object at run time
• Explain the benefits of adding service methods at the application module level (rather than at the view level)
• Create a test client for testing your custom code
• Modify a view object’s client code to add a new employee to the employees view object

Validating User Input

• Describe the types of validation available for ADF applications
• Evaluate which validation options are appropriate for different validations
• Add declarative validation for an entity object
• Identify the other non-declarative validation options and when they might be used
• Describe the benefits of using domains for validation

Troubleshooting ADF BC Applications

• Identify the JDeveloper tools for logging and diagnostics
• Use Java code auditing tools
• Make use of FileMon and Junit to debug an application
• Use the JDeveloper profiler
• Use the JDeveloper debugger
• Identify sources of Help

Understanding UI Technologies

• Describe the use of Web browsers and HTML
• Explain how Java has come into widespread use as a language for developing Web applications
• Describe the function of Servlets and JSPs
• Define JavaServer Faces
• Explain the JSF component architecture
• Expalin some JSF component types included in the standard implementation
• Describe the purpose of backing beans
• Describe the JSF life cycle
• Explain how ADF Faces augments the JSF life cycle

Binding UI Components to Data

• Create an empty JSF page
• Use three different ways to add ADF Faces UI components to a page
• Describe the types of data-bound components that can be added to a JSF page
• Describe the structure of an EL (Expression Language) expression

Planning the User Interface

• Describe the Model-View-Controller design pattern
• Differentiate between bounded and unbounded task flows
• Create task flows to define control flow in an application
• Specify control flow rules
• Define global navigation
• Use routers to declaratively route control flow to activities based on an EL expression
• Define the role of managed beans in task flows
• Explain the types of validation available in the user interface

Adding Functionality to Pages

• Internationalize the user interface so that the application can be used in multiple locales
• Use component facets to specify subordinate elements such as toolbars, headers and footers
• Implement a list of values (LOV) to enable users to select a value from a list
• Add a calendar component to an input date field to make it easy for users to select a date
• Use the table component to display structured data as a formatted table
• Employ the tree component to display hierarchical data
• Add icons and images to an application with ADF Faces output componentsE
• Create Search forms using the ADF query component
• Use ADF Data Visualization components to add charts, graphs, map etc to your JSF pages

Implementing Navigation on Pages

• Implement command buttons and links
• Create menus – Menu bar
• Create menus – Popup
• Create menus – Context
• Use a navigation page
• Use breadcrumbs
• Create trains

Achieving the Required Layout

• Build complex page layouts with layout components
• Explain the role of ADF Faces skins
• Use dynamic page layout

]Ensuring Reusability

• Identify the benefits of reusing components
• Create a resource catalog to enable sharing of resources within and across teams and applications
• Create ADF libraries to share components within and across teams and applications
• Create a task flow template for reuse across different bounded task flows
• Create a page template for reuse across the JSF pages in an application to enable a consistent look and feel
• Create a declarative component for reuse in different pages of an application
• Create a page fragment to use in multiple pages of the application
• Employ a bounded task flow as a region in a JSF page

Passing Values between UI Elements

• Evaluate whether the data model contains opportunities to reduce the need for passing values between pages
• Use a managed bean to pass values between JSF pages
• Store values in memory-scoped attributes to hold and pass information between pages and life cycle phases
• Use parameters to pass information to different parts of the application

Responding to Application Events

• Configure managed beans to contain code to respond to events
• Explain the different types of events
• Use phase listeners to listen for and respond to events
• Explain the role of an event listener
• Use action listeners
• Describe the sequence in which events and listeners are executed
• Describe the features of JDeveloper that support ADF Faces enhanced event handling
• Identify the server events fired by ADF Faces components/span>
• Use the contextual events framework to co-ordinate regions on a JSF page

Implementing Transactional Capabilities

• Explain ADF BC transaction handling
• Enable an ADF bounded task flow to run as a transaction
• Manage transaction exceptions on ADF bounded or unbounded task flows
• Define the response to the browser’s Back button (for an ADF task flow that was already exited)
• Implement Save for Later functionality

Implementing Security in ADF BC Applications

• Explain the need to secure applications
• Describe security aspects of an ADF BC application
• Add ADF Security Authentication to an application
• Add ADF Security Authorization to an application
• Use two approaches for granting users access to resources
• Prevent unauthorised access to the ADF BC Model
• Explain the types of application authentication at run time
• Use Expression Language to extend the default security capabilities of the framework

Explore the Project Structure and Core File Architecture

• Define File Structure of a Project
• Examine how Metadata files are used to specify paramters, methods, and return values to a data control
• Define ADF Data Control and Databinding Files
• Explore the ADF Faces and Web Configuration Files to know where task flows, pages and code are created
• Define Hierarchical Relationship of the XML Metadata files in a Web Application

Extend the ADF Business Components Framework

• Examine some general considerations when using ADF Business Components
• Extend the ADF Business Components (ADF BC) Framework to customize your application
• Override the standard way data is committed to the database using a PL/SQL procedure
• Design ADF Business comonents to avoid database contraint

Use ADF Business Components for Validation, Calculations and List of Values

• Build Cascading List of Values
• Enhance the Application with Calculations and Validation
• Create Validation for Foreign Keys
• Employ Groovy Expressions in Validations

Use Inheritance in the Business Domain Layer

• Reuse existing Bussiness Component designs by extending components
• Implement Supertype/Subtype designs using Entity Objects
• Create View Objects to access more than one table

ADF as a part of a Service Oriented Architecture

• Expose ADF Business Components as SDO for use in a SOA Process (BPEL)
• Create Rich User Interfaces that access data from a composite application
• Create events for ADF Business Components to trigger Enterprise Service Bus
• Use Service Data Objects to access heterogeneous data in a uniform way

Implement Data Binding Controls

• Define and Recognize ADF Model binding types
• Define ADF Model executables and how to use them
• Customize data-bound components within the page definition file to support application requirements
• Use Expression Language to connect page items to model components
• Determine how model components get transformed into Data Control Palette items

Practical Data Binding in Action

• Describe how data binding and the JavaServer Faces (JSF) page life cycle
• Define listeners and custom controllers to augment the ADFm life cycle
• Explain how the Application Development Framework (ADF) life cycle works

Work with Managed Beans and JavaServer Faces

• Define key JavaServer Faces (JSF) terms
• Describe the JSF Architecture with Application Development Framework (ADF)
• Differentiate between Managed and Backing Beans
• In a JSF page, create and reference a Managed Bean to perform a custom method
• Set and use Managed Properties to store and retrieve user login information
• Use context object classes to access application messages, work with the Servlet API or ADF specific funcationality

ADF Faces Advanced Features

• Examine AJAX and ADF
• Employ Partial Page Rendering (PPR) on a JSF Page
• Enhance a page by creating input and output items using ADF Components
• Use page, panel and splitter componentss to design and build a JSF page
• Develop UI shell templates to incorporate company standard behavours, look and feel
• Display numerical data using Data Visualization components and Active Data Services

Integrate with WebCenter

• Allow end users to perform runtime customization to their application pages
• Integrate ADF pages with Content Management systems to access file systems
• Add Web Center Services, like social networking and collaboration, to JSF/ADF pages
• Add reusable Portlets that provide dynamic view of data, into a JSF/ADF page

Customize the Application Look and Feel with Skins

• Use Firebug and Mozilla Developer Toolbar to build skins
• Explain how skin selectors work
• Build instance specific skins
• Develop a managed bean to change skin at runtime

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