Intercepting ADF Table Column Show/Hide Event with Custom Change Manager Class. Ever wondered how to intercept ADF table column show/hide event from ADF Panel Collection component? Yes, you could use ADF MDS functionality to store user preference for table visible columns. But what if you would want to implement it yourself without using MDS? Actually, this is possible through custom persistence manager class. I will show you how.
Understanding Attributes Enum in ADF BC Row Class. Did you ever wonder why Attributes Enum is generated by JDeveloper in Entity or View Row class? Attributes Enum holds a collection of attribute names and there is a set of static variables with attribute indexes. These indexes are used to locate attribute in getter/setter. Attributes Enum is a structure which is required for JDeveloper on design time to generate Java code. On runtime Attributes Enum is needed only as long as you are using a static variable index in the getter/setter.
Effective Way to Get Changed Rows in ADF BC API. Did you ever wondered how to get all changed rows in the transaction, without iterating through entire row set? It turns out to be pretty simple with ADF BC API method - getAllEntityInstancesIterator, which is invoked for Entity Definition attached to current VO.
ADF Declarative Component Example. ADF Declarative Component support is popular ADF framework feature, but in this post I would like to explain it from slightly different angle. I will show how to pass ADF binding and Java bean objects into component through properties, in these cases when component must show data from ADF bindings, such approach could offer robustness and simplify component development.
Find In Cache By Key ADF BC API Method Usage. What if you need to verify - if row with given key exists in fetched rowset? This could be useful while implementing validation logic. ADF BC API method findByKey - will trigger SQL call and fetch row from DB, if row with given key doesn't exist in fetched rowset. Luckily there is ADF BC API method called findInCacheByKey, this method only checks for row in fetched rowset, without going to DB - very convenient in certain situations, when you actually don't want to bring record from DB, if it wasn't fetched.
Microservices with Oracle ADF Remote Regions. ADF remote regions - functionality available in the latest ADF 12c versions. ADF remote region runs on different server and content is delivered to consuming module through ADF remote region servlet. This allows to decouple large enterprise system into separate modules, each running independently on separate servers. Gained advantage - system becomes more scalable and reliable, even if several modules will be down, system will continue to be functional.
Avoid Blind SQL Call from ADF Task Flow Method. Keep an eye open on ADF Task Flow Method Call activities where methods from ADF Bindings are called. JDEV 12c sets deferred refresh for ADF binding iterators related to TF Method Call activities and this causing blind SQL to be executed. Blind SQL - query without bind variables.
Recipe for JQuery Menu integration into ADF Faces. May be you are thinking to add some fresh looking element into your ADF app? I would propose JQuery menu. Advantage of such menu - it is purely client side implementation and it allows user to navigate through items really fast. Besides fast navigation, it looks great too and can be easily customized.
JET Composite Component in ADF Faces UI - Deep Integration. Finding ways of further JET integration into ADF Faces is important. Next step would be to implement editable grid JET based component and integrate it into ADF to improve fast user data entry experience..
ADF Performance Story - This Time Developer Was Wrong. ADF is fast. If ADF application is slow, most likely this is related to development mistakes. I would like to tell you one story, based on my ADF tuning experience. Problem description: ADF application runs fast in DEV, when DB size is small. Same application runs slow in TEST/PROD, when DB size is large. Question - what is slow. Answer - slow means forms are loading slow. Ok, lets go to the story.
ADF BC REST Service from ADF Library JAR. I had assignment to enable ADF BC REST for existing ADF application, which was developed with multiple ADF libraries. ADF BC REST was supposed to be enabled for one of the ADF libraries and then accessed through Master application. All ADF BC REST samples usually show how to enable REST inside Master application itself. I was curious if it will work to enable ADF BC REST and package it into ADF library, which is consumed from Master application. It worked and I would like to share sample app.
ADF 12c Table CRUD Fix for Auto Focus. I had a post about how to improve user data entry for ADF table with auto focus for new row - Improving ADF UI Table CRUD Functionality with Auto Focus. If you follow comments thread for that post - you will see described approach doesn't work exactly as it should in ADF 12c (focus is set for new row but later is lost after tab navigation - it should move focus to another column). Thanks to the community we have simple fix for this issue, read OTN Forum thread - Set Focus on CreateINsert row in ADF Table. I hope Oracle will fix this functionality in the next ADF versions (currently they say it is expected behaviour, and I don't agree with this). But for now - fix does the job.
ADF Client Side Validation with JavaScript. In my previous post I explained how to use JS client side formatter for ADF Faces input components - ADF Goes Client Side - UI Performance Boost with JavaScript. The same principle can be applied for client side validation. Most likely you are not going to implement complex validation rules on the client side, but for simple checks - it will be perfect. There will be no roundtrip to the server and this will allow to improve user experience.
Oracle JET Busy Context API to Control Asynchronous REST Calls. I have received feedback from users working with JET UI - sometimes it is not obvious that action button was pressed, users tend to press same button again very fast, which leads to parallel REST calls executing at the same time. In JET - REST call is executed asynchronously, this makes user to believe action was done instantly when button was pressed. However, REST call still may run in the background - while user will be trying to call same service again. While in most of the cases such behaviour is fine, still there are use cases when we want to block action button, until REST response is not received (while response is executed, button will be disabled - this will give visual feedback to the user about action still executing). JET provides Busy Context API to handle asynchronous REST calls in synchronous way.
ADF Goes Client Side - UI Performance Boost with JavaScript. If you would like to boost ADF UI performance, you should look into client side validation and formatting options possible to be done in ADF UI. Today I will describe how you can implement client side converter, to format number value on client side, without making request to the server. Same approach could be used to implement client side validators. You can raise error message and it will be assigned to UI field in the same way, just like any standard ADF error message. While this approach is documented long ago in Oracle ADF developer guide - How To Create Client Side Converter, it is not well known and not often used.
ADF BC - Create View Object From Query with Custom Implementation Class. I had a request to explain how to create dynamic ADF BC VO from SQL statement and set custom VO implementation class for newly created VO instance. Custom VO implementation class extends from ADF BC ViewObjectImpl and overrides super method.
ADF 12c BC Proxy User DB Connection and Save Point Error. If you are modernising Oracle Forms system, high chance you need to rely on DB proxy connection. Read more about it in my previous post for ADF 11g - Extending Application Module for ADF BC Proxy User DB Connection. It works in the same way for ADF 12c, but there is issue related to handling DB error, when DB proxy connection is on. DB error is propagated to ADF but is being substituted by save point error (as result - user would not see original error from DB). It seems like related to JDBC driver in 12c. The workaround is to override ADF SQL builder class and disable save point error propagation (there might be better ways to workaround it).
ADF BC Attribute - Collection Storage Mode Property. I would like to describe one interesting property for ADF BC attribute. This property is called Storage. There are two possible values: row (default) and collection. By default attribute value is saved in row storage, but alternatively it can be saved in collection storage. ADF BC implements collection storage using map which comes from session scope. This allows to keep value even between ADF BC requests, this is ideal for transient attributes.
Nice Trick to Get ADF LOV Description Text. I will tell you about nice trick to display LOV description. Usually you would create separate attribute in VO for LOV description and base LOV on this attribute (read about it in my previous post - Defining the LOV on a Reference Attribute in Oracle ADF 11g). But there is one more way - it makes it much faster to define LOV on description, but you should be aware about additional SQL statement executed to fetch description text.
Running ADF BC REST Service Together with ADF Faces Application. ADF 12c provides out of the box support for ADF BC REST API. It is straightforward to create ADF BC REST service and run it. But what if you would like to expose ADF BC REST for existing ADF application with ADF Faces UI. This could be useful if there is a requirement to handle ADF Bindings access to ADF BC along with light ADF BC REST service API implementation for Oracle JET or other JavaScript clients. The same ADF application could handle two types of client access - ADF Faces and REST.
