Chapter 11. Advanced Features of ADF

Now we have come to the stage where we know the basic concept of creating an ADF application. We started from ADF business components and then learned about the data control used in the model layer. We learned about the important concept of ADF Task Flow and ADF Faces. Finally, we learned how to implement security for an ADF application, and learned to deploy a web application.

In this chapter, we will learn more on the advanced and complex topics of ADF.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Advanced topics on entity objects

• Advanced topics on view objects

• Application module state management

• Complex data control

• Complex task flows

• Complex usage of a managed bean

• Debugging an application

• The Metadata Services framework

• The Active Data Services framework

• WebLogic server configurations

• Creating extensions