Binding model data with user interfaces

Presenting business data to end users without sacrificing the usability and scalability of the system is very important for any enterprise application. When you wire data from the business services implementation to the UI, in general, there are two tasks involved:

• Invoking business services for data: Typical implementation may contain some infrastructure code to invoke business services for data access. The service invocation code may vary with technology used for building business services.

• Binding the data with UI components: Once the business data is read, the application should populate data on the UI without losing the meaning.

The ADF model performs the preceding tasks in a more generic way by abstracting the infrastructure code required for service invocation and data binding from developers. ADF uses the following concepts to bind the UI with the data model:

• Data control: Data control acts as a proxy cum adaptor implementation for the business...