What this book covers

Chapter 1, Building Your ADF Faces Environment from the Ground Up, provides the necessary steps to build your environment and install different software to work with ADF Faces.

Chapter 2, Getting Started with ADF Faces and JDeveloper, focuses on getting you started with a simple ADF application and showing you how to deal with JDeveloper IDE.

Chapter 3, Presenting Data Using ADF Faces, shows different ways to present business service data with highlights over i18n and l10n.

Chapter 4, Using Common ADF Faces Components, describes how to work with the common ADF Faces components.

Chapter 5, Beautifying the Application Layout for Great User Experience, provides different techniques of creating great looking application by creating templates and skins, and by using advanced skinning techniques.

Chapter 6, Enriching User Experience with Visualization Components, explains how to work with different ADF Faces Visualization components to create great dashboards.

Chapter 7, Handling Events and Partial Page Rendering, describes how to use partial page rendering and different ADF events. It also provides an explanation of how to create great reactive applications by understanding how to use polling, push, and work with WebSockets.

Chapter 8, Validating and Converting Inputs, explains how to provide conversion and validation for different input components to insure the validity of the data returned to the service layer.

Chapter 9, Building Your Application for Reuse, shows how to create different resources for reuse, such as task flow templates, declarative components, contextual events, and how to package your application for reuse.

Chapter 10, Scaling Your ADF Faces Application, provides multiple tips and advice of how to scale your application and tune its performance.