Quick Start Guide to Oracle Fusion Development: Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF (Oracle Press) [Paperback]

Grant Ronald (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 19, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0071744282 | ISBN-13: 978-0071744287 | Edition: 1

Get Started with Oracle Fusion Development

Written by a Group Product Manager at Oracle, this Oracle Press guide gets you up and running quickly with your first Oracle Fusion applications. Quick Start Guide to Oracle Fusion Development provides only the essential information you need to build applications in a matter of hours. Rapidly learn the building blocks and functionality you’ll use most of the time. The progression of topics closely matches the application building process, taking you through a typical developer scenario from start to completion.

Quick Start Guide to Oracle Fusion Development features

• Concise and friendly format providing the essentials needed to start building applications right away
• Chapters that build on each other to illustrate a typical development scenario from start to finish
• Unique author insights gained from hours of one-on-one meetings with customers and work in Oracle’s usability labs

The perfect entry point to Oracle Fusion development
Introduction to Fusion and the Fusion Technologies; Introduction to JDeveloper and Oracle ADF; Finding your Way Around JDeveloper; Building Business Services; Introducing ADF Business Components; The Role of the Entity; A View of your Data – The View Object; The Application Module; Implementing Business Service Validation; More View Object Features; Building the User Interface; Introducing ADF Face Rich Client; ADF Model; Building Typical ADF Pages; Building Application Flow; Menus, Toolbars and Buttons; Advanced UI Techniques; Data Visualization and Other Rich UI Components; Application Look and Feel; Common Coding Patterns; Common Business Service Coding Examples; Common View Coding Examples

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About the Author

Grant Ronald is a Group Product Manager in Oracle's Application Development Tools Division responsible for guiding Oracle's traditional development base to Fusion. He has spent 12 years working with Oracle's traditional toolset and eight years working on the Oracle JDeveloper and ADF product management team. Grant speaks at many Oracle events (e.g. UKOUG, DOAG, Oracle World, ODTUG) across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and North America. He also has a regular column in the UK Oracle User Group magazine and has written for Oracle Magazine and the Oracle Development Tools Journal. Grant also blogs at blogs.oracle.com/grantronald

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (August 19, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071744282
• ISBN-13: 978-0071744287
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.1 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #519,846 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars An easy read - awesome for beginners January 15, 2011

By George

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I have had a difficult time wrapping myself around the Java EE stack. Time after time I found very detailed explanations and examples on how to do things in JDeveloper/ADF, but not really why. This book explains the why and does so in a very easy to read manner. It has provided precisely what I needed to get started. I now have a much better understanding of how the pieces fit together and feel ready for the more code-oriented books such as the JDeveloper Handbook or Fusion Developer Guides. For someone without J2EE experience looking to break into Oracle ADF, this is a must read.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Not A Tutorial August 22, 2011

By Mark Piller

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I strongly disagree with the majority of the comments made by the previous evaluators - meaning they highly praise this book's efforts.

Yes, this book is packed full of information and details concerning almost any element of development you will encounter for Fusion Apps using ADF.

That being said, it is not a good tutorial. The reason I am stating this is that you are not building a complete application through step-by-step instructions. You have something more of a shell of a development with lots of fragments that are disjointed. The author actually states this in his introduction - "One decision that was made early in the book-writing process was not to include pages and pages of very specific and detailed step-by-step instructions of how to build a sample application." I, for one, wish it was. You can download a completed application from the author's link specified in the book (also in the introduction).

This is not a reference book either and the author tells you that too. You really need to work with the samples to grasp the ADF paradigm. Then, you might bookmark the various pages that illustrate those concepts for a reference later in your development work.

What this book does is give you an ability to peer inside of the many different challenges you will have as an ADF developer.

PROS
1. Comprehensive - a lot of ADF technology is addressed in the book
2. When the author writes good examples, they will definitely give you the background you need to know.
3. Provides a sample application at the link given in the book
4. Best book available on ADF development - there is none better right now!
5. Much better resource than anything else I can find on the Internet.

CONS
1. Not a tutorial - you will not have a completed application that works in the end of your efforts unless you actually refer to the author's sample.
2. Begins to move too rapidly with less depth in configurations when describing Task Flows and Page controls. I think this section would be even more useful with completed tutorial like examples rather than a shotgun approach to design work.
3. There is a bug in the JDeveloper ADF Business Component browser when testing the Custom Service Method "cancelCurrentOrder()" described in Chapter 6. I have made the author aware and he has confirmed and submitted this as a JDeveloper bug.

I highly recommend buying this book and working through all the examples.
I personally believe that it would be a better resource had the author decide to "connect the dots" and all the examples could work together to make a complete application.

Good luck!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Bible for ADF Newcomers August 18, 2011

By Mike Oakes

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This is an extremely well written and easy to follow book which, as the title says, gives a very quick and concise guide to getting up and running with ADF very quickly.

I read through the book as part of my prep for ADF Certification and although by the point of reading I had gained a handle of what was in there, there were also a few little extra nuggets that I picked up which have been very useful.

All concepts are described in a fashion that is very easy to understand, and the order and flow in which the elements are taught fits in well with the order of development one would usually take with an ADF Project.

I would definitely recommend this book as a starting point for anyone wanting to get to grips with ADF for the first time - the examples actually worked too. Some of the other ADF books contain errors in the examples so you end up having to debug which can be frustrating to someone learning the technology - there were no such issues with this book.