Jonas Jacobi's ADF UIX & JavaServer Faces blog

Due to a comment to the sample this is just a note that will explain the
steps required to get this sample working.

1. Install JDeveloper 10g (9.0.5) Preview.
2. Create a new empty Application workspace and Save it.
3. In your working directory for this workspace unzip the "demolovproject.zip" file
4. Open the project file - demoLovProject.jpr in your workspace.

It should look like this:



 
5. Compile your project
6. Select the LOVRef.uix file and then RUN.

Thanks,
Jonas

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This is a common question on our Forums and I thought I would share with you a sample provided to me by Bud Osterberg. Thanks Bud!

This is a self contained sample with one solution for LOV's in the release of Oracle JDeveloper 10g Preview. I will be providing a tutorial (as soon as I can) on how to build an LOV using ADF UIX, Struts, and Oracle's Business Components for Java. I'll let you know when it is ready.

For now, please enjoy this sample, and let me know if you have any question on the sample.

LOV sample

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The short answer is no! ADF UIX has been used extensively within Oracle for several years to produce products like Oracle iLearning, Enterprise Manager, Oracle9i Internet File System, and the Oracle Applications eBusiness suite. There are also several customers currently using JDeveloper and ADF UIX, or in the stage of investigating the use of ADF UIX.

As a notice Oracle is also tightly involved in the expert group in charge of JSR-127 (JavaServer Faces), and Oracle will also be providing a migration path to JSF for customers that are using ADF UIX today.
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This is a very common question and I will try to bundle my answer into just a couple of paragraphs. The ADF UIX technology is one of the available views in Oracle ADF (Application Development Framework) and is an open user interface framework for building J2EE-compliant web applications.

ADF UIX is a technology for developing web applications with an XML component model in the presentation tier. It includes Java class libraries, APIs, and parsers for creating web applications with page-based navigation, such as an online shopping application. ADF UIX supports a variety of clients, including HTML-compliant browsers and mobile devices.

You can use ADF UIX to develop the entire application or different aspects of an application based on the Model-View-Controller Model 2 design pattern. The core piece of ADF UIX is the rich set of user interface components, which are designed for building the user presentation layer (View) of an application.

In the close future (as soon as the JavaServer Faces technology is released to public) ADF UIX will become an extension to JavaServer Faces. At the 2003 JavaOne conference Oracle demonstrated on stage an early technology preview of JDeveloper and Oracle's extension to JSF - ADF UIX.

For more information about Oracle's plan for ADF UIX and JavaServer Faces I would recommend you to read the following paper on otn.oracle.com - Roadmap for the ADF UIX technology and JavaServer Faces

I guess I can write tons of stuff about ADF UIX, but this will due for now ;O)

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Well, I guess that you would like to know who I am, why I started this blog and what I do for a living. My name is Jonas Jacobi and I work as a Senior Product Manager for Oracle JDeveloper, and to be more specific I manage the ADF UIX and JavaServer Faces feature team. This covers all work related to design time and runtime for these technologies. Previous to this I have been working as Consultant, Project Lead, Instructor, and team lead for various IT companies in Europe since the early 90's.

The reason for starting this blog is to be able to help anyone interested in ADF UIX and JavaServer Faces, which I personally think - as technologies - rocks!! (Am I biased or what ;o) My goal is to post as many short tips and tricks on JDeveloper & ADF UIX, as I possible can, in this blog.

Hope you will enjoy it
- Jonas
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