Jonas Jacobi's ADF UIX & JavaServer Faces blog

My Blog Has Moved!!

2004-02-07T10:26:00.000-08:00

Hi All,

I'm sorry for the inconvinience, but I have decided to move my blog content to a new blog site - My New blog Site

Main page of this new blog site

This blog site is providing an rss feed for those of you who wants it, and this site has been developed with ADF UIX technology :)

Best of luck and I'll see you at my new blog place.

Thanks, Jonas

ADF UIX Inline data source

2004-01-29T19:23:00.000-08:00

Prototyping with out connecting to a database is a aquestion that is frequently asked and I thought that a simple how to would be handy for anyone interested. UIX is designed to be as dynamic as possible allowing you to data bind any attributes available in your page. In the 10g release we are using EL to wire a page up to a source (db, inline data, beans, etc...)

Here is a working inline data source sample for JDeveloper 10g Preview:

<provider>
<data name="tabData">
<inline>
<tabInfo text="Tab1" url="InlineData" tabIndex="0"/>
<tabInfo text="Tab2" url="InlineData" tabIndex="1"/>
<tabInfo text="Tab3" url="InlineData" tabIndex="2"/>
<tabInfo text="Tab4" url="InlineData" tabIndex="3"/>
<tabInfo text="Tab5" url="InlineData" tabIndex="4"/>
</inline>
</data>
</provider>

.......

In your page you would wire it up using EL. See below sample


<tabs>
<tabBar selectedIndex="${ui:defaulting(uix.pageProp.tab, '0')}">
<contents childData="${uix.data.tabData.tabInfo}">
<link text="${uix.current.text}">
<boundAttribute name="destination">
<ctrl:pageURL name="${uix.current.url}">
<ctrl:properties>
<ctrl:property key="tab" value="${uix.current.tabIndex}"/>
</ctrl:properties>
</ctrl:pageURL>
</boundAttribute>
</link>

</contents>
</tabBar>
</tabs>

Best of luck making your page dynamic
- Jonas

I'm back

2004-01-29T17:26:00.000-08:00

Hi All,

After a couple of busy weeks with family and friends I'm back! There are a lot of stuff going on in Oracle land and it is great to part of it. This blog is intended to focus on JDeveloper, ADF UIX, and JavaServer Faces, so here is a link to a blog site built with UIX technology by Brian Duff.

Brian Duff's new blog site built with UIX

We are getting closer to a production release of JDeveloper 10g and so there will be much more activities on this blog and on the OTN website the next coming weeks.

- Jonas

A big thanks to Brian Duff!

2003-12-22T10:04:00.000-08:00

Hi All,

Thanks to Brian Duff I have now removed myself from the geocities website mess. Brian has generously shared his server with me so that I can post my images, zip files, samples and other stuff with no hassle. So, finally, you can now download all samples without no hassle.

Brian, your are the man of the year!
(If you want to know more about Brian, visit his
blog)

Happy Holidays
Jonas

Sun announced the official name of its Rave tool

2003-12-03T15:17:00.000-08:00

Sun announced the official name of its Rave development tool -- now Java Studio Creator -- and announced that it will be releasing an early access version starting today.

http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/jscreator/index.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5112776.html?tag=nefd_top

Notable quote from their features page: "By introducing Java Studio Creator, Sun is the first JavaServer Faces expert group member to announce a product based on this technology, and the first to fully commit to a standards-based approach to simplifying Java development."

Just an FYI! Sun is not the first JSF member to announce a product based on this technlogy. Oracle is also very active in the JSR 127 Expert Group and announced their commitment to support JSF with JDeveloper at the begining of November AND presented an early working beta of the JSF support at JavaOne 2003 in SF.

Roadmap for the ADF UIX technology and JavaServer Faces

I'm waiting for the first official beta from Sun to show up.

Simple Hello World sample using ADF UIX and JDeveloper 10g Preview

2003-12-02T15:09:00.000-08:00

Thought I would share this simple sample for those of you needing a simple and fast way into the great world of ADF UIX. This sample includes two solutions for passing a value from one page to another using ADF UIX and Struts. One is using Java Beans the other solution is using the request object. The zip file contains a JDeveloper workspace, so you only need to unzip the file in your working directory and open the workspace in JDeveloper 10g Preview. To run the Hello World application open the Struts page flow located in the view project and select and run the mainAction. Good Luck!

Hello World sample

- Jonas

More info needed for the LOV sample

2003-11-21T09:34:00.000-08:00

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

Sample of how to build an LOV with ADF UIX

2003-11-20T10:11:00.000-08:00

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

Is ADF UIX a new technology?

2003-11-18T11:22:00.000-08:00

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.

What is ADF UIX?

2003-11-18T11:10:00.000-08:00

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)

Who am I?

2003-11-18T11:06:00.000-08:00

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