Summary
In this chapter, we discussed the core building blocks of ADF Business Components and how they collaborate and work together at runtime to perform basic CRUD operations on rows from a datasource. In this chapter, you have learned the following:
Role of business service layer in an enterprise application
Building blocks of ADF Business Components
Using JDeveloper to build ADF business components
How the view object reads data from database
How the entity object participates in the transaction post cycle
This chapter is intended to give you an overview of business components. We will take a closer look at each business component item in the coming chapters. The next chapter discusses the entity object and its basic features. More advanced features of entity objects are covered in Chapter 5, Advanced Concepts on Entity Objects and View Objects.
