Building a simple data bound web page

Let us build a simple data bound web UI to get a feel for the visual and declarative development experience offered by the JDeveloper IDE along with Oracle ADF framework. During this exercise, we will also take a look at the metadata files generated by the IDE to be used by the runtime.

To build a fusion web application workspace, follow these steps:

1. Create a fusion web application by selecting the New Application option within the application navigator tab in the JDeveloper.

2. This will display the New Gallery dialog window with a set of predefined templates targeting various technologies. For ADF web applications, select the Fusion Web Application template and click on OK.

3. Enter the application package prefix as com.packtpub.adfguide.ch7. On the next page, enter the model project name as HRDataModel.

4. Click on Finish to save the changes.

As we have already discussed about the generation of business components (entity object, view object, and application module...