Learn Oracle ADF

Learning Oracle ADF
Grant Ronald
Director of Product Management
Mobility and Development Tools
September, 2014
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Program Agenda
1
Why might ADF be important to learn?
Do I need to know Java?
What else do I need to know?
Where can I get help?
Program Agenda
1
So, Why Should I Learn Oracle ADF?
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Who Is It For?
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But Isnt It Hard?
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Program Agenda
1
ADF is a Java framework. Do

you need to know Java? The
clue is in the name!
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Confucius
Do I Need to Know Java?

What is the minimum I need to know?
Beginner
Classes, objects and methods
Data types
Simple conditional statements
Loops
Basic ADF APIs
Intermediate
Advanced
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What would an intermediate developer know?
Beginner
Intermediate
Basic inheritance
Exception handling
Casting
Lists/Arrays
Advanced

What should my advanced developers know?
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Class design
Framework extensions
Project level decisions
Reuse
Development/Coding Standards
Java You Dont Need to Know

Avoid Java overload (at least at the beginning)
Java I/O fundamentals

Java File I/O
JDBC
Threads
Concurrency
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Program Agenda
1
Understanding the Java Platform

Not essential but nice to have
JavaServer Faces
Lifecycle (possibly essential)
HTTP session management

UI technologies
HTML
JavaScript
CSS
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Understanding the Java Platform

With power comes responsibility
The E in JEE is for

Enterprise
ADF doesnt completely protect
you
There is an ecosystem of
development aids
Source control
Continuous integration
Automated builds
Testing frameworks
Team collaboration
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There is a reason why the

platform supports all these
features, in the long run they
will make life easier.
Confucius
And We Still Havent Got To ADF Yet
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Dont Worry, Help Is Here!
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Help Me Learn ADF!

Newbie developer
Average developer
Architect/development lead
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What a newbie would be expected to know (not an
exhaustive list)
Understand the basic building blocks of ADF

MVC, EO/VO/AM
Declarative validation
Drag and drop data bindings
Task flows
ADF Faces components
Java coding (work WITH the framework)

Validation triggers
Simple VO/AM methods
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Confucius
In the early days, always look

for a declarative way of
achieving something. If you are
writing
code
now,
youre
Grant Ronald,
Oracle
Open World
2014!
possibly doing something
wrong

What an average developer would be expected to know (not
an exhaustive list)
More advanced use of ADF building

blocks
Parameterising ADF BC, accessors, view

criteria
Understand bindings internals
Task flow parameters, transactions
Managed beans
Reuse and partitioning
Java coding
Overriding default behaviour
ADF is not a black box.

Understand how it works and
work WITH it.
Confucius

What an architect/lead developer would be expected to know
(not an exhaustive list)
Advanced ADF, tuning, deployment

Skinning
MDS
Pooling/performance/transactions
Reuse/libraries/deployment
Project concepts
UX design
Source control
Build, integration, deploy, test

What an architect/lead developer would be expected to know
(not an exhaustive list)
Platform
Deployment topology
Security
WLS
SOA
Web services
You will not get everything right

first time. So start small and
learn from your mistakes.
Confucius
Program Agenda
1
Where Can I Get Help

Help for newbies Google is your friend
OTN otn jdeveloper getting started

Tutorials, videos, links
Oracle University training (5 day course)

Books
Quick Start Guide to Fusion Development
JDeveloper Handbook (and many more)
Online videos
ADFInsiderEssentials on YouTube
Documentation
Read, watch and listen,

however, there is no substitute
for doing.
Confucius

Help for real-world development Google is your friend
Books
Fusion Developer Guide
Real World Developers Guide (and many more)
Online videos
ADFInsiderEssentials on YouTube
Documentation
Blogs, events
ADF Code Corner
OTN forums

Help for architects - Google is your friend
Books
Enterprise Application Development Made Simple (and more)
Online videos
ADF Architecture TV
ADF Architecture Square

Documentation
UX design patterns
ADF EMG

Help in the community
JDeveloper OTN
OTN forums
ADF EMG
User groups (ODTUG, UKOUG, DOAG etc)
Events
Social
LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, blogs
https://pinboard.in/u:OracleADF/
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ADF is a path well travelled.

Learn from others.
Confucius
Learn More at OOW

Session
Title
Time/Location
CON405
6
Modern UI Design: Implementing Oracles Best Prac Wed 10:15 Moscone

tices in Your Applications
South 270
CON340
7
Starting Your Oracle Application Development Fra

mework Project Right
Wed 2:00 Moscone South

302
CON311
9
First Programming Steps in Oracle ADF: Beyond D

rag and Drop
Wed 16:45 Moscone

South 302
HOL9274 Developing Web and Mobile Dashboards with Orac

le ADF
Wed 13:15
Intercontinental - Sutter
Learn more at the Oracle Mobile Demo Booths in Moscone South
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decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or
functionality described for Oracles products remains at the sole
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Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Safe Harbor Statement

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Why might ADF be important to learn?

Do I need to know Java?

What else do I need to know?

Where can I get help?

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Why might ADF be important to learn?

Do I need to know Java?

What else do I need to know?

Where can I get help?

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

So, Why Should I Learn Oracle ADF?

Image: Stuart Miles/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Image: imagerymajestic / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

But Isnt It Hard?

Image: Jomphong/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Why might ADF be important to learn?

Do I need to know Java?

What else do I need to know?

Where can I get help?

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

ADF is a Java framework. Do

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Do I Need to Know Java?

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Do I Need to Know Java?

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Do I Need to Know Java?

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Java You Dont Need to Know

Java I/O fundamentals

Image: Gualberto107/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Why might ADF be important to learn?

Do I need to know Java?

What else do I need to know?

Where can I get help?

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Understanding the Java Platform

HTTP session management

Image: : num_skyman / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Understanding the Java Platform

The E in JEE is for

Image: : num_skyman / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

There is a reason why the

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

And We Still Havent Got To ADF Yet

Image: : David Castillo Dominici / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Dont Worry, Help Is Here!

Image: : David Castillo Dominici / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Help Me Learn ADF!

Image: : imagerymajestic / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |

Help Me Learn Oracle ADF!