Working with dynamicComponent

There are certain cases when you want to render different components on page dynamically based on a changing model (think programmatic view object), and this cannot be determined before runtime. This can generate a huge code to generate components which can be very tedious for the developer.

Oracle ADF Faces provides a solution for the use cases with the af:dynamicComponent tag. The af:dynamicComponent tag can determine the component type to display and its value at runtime.

In this recipe, we will create a new page to see how can we display different input components based on of the EmployeeView attributes using af:dynamicComponent.

How to do it...

In order to use the dynamicComponent, follow the ensuing steps:

1. Open the adfc-config.xml file.

2. Drag a view and name it dynamicComponent.

3. Double-click on the newly created view and choose the Oracle Three Column Layout template.

4. Drag EmployeesView1 under Chapter4AppModuleDataControl from the Data Controls pane and drop it...