You're reading from Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder Boost productivity by building web and mobile applications efficiently using the drag-and-drop approach

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569805

Length 500 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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JavaScript

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Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Ankur Jain

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Exploring the Building Blocks of VB

2. Chapter 1: What, Why, and How (WWH) of Visual Builder FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Provisioning and Understanding the Visual Builder Instance

4. Chapter 3: Exploring Visual Builder Ingredients

5. Section 2: Working with Data and Services

6. Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Business Objects

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Managing Service Connections

8. Chapter 6: Building Web Applications Using Real-World Examples

9. Chapter 7: Working with Life Cycle Events, Validations, and UI Logic

10. Section 3: Building Web and Mobile Apps Using Various VB Components

11. Chapter 8: Exploring Other Visual Components and Their Advanced Functionalities

12. Chapter 9: Extending Oracle and Non-Oracle SaaS Applications

13. Chapter 10: Working with Business Processes

14. Chapter 11: Building a Mobile Application with Live Examples

15. Section 4: Security, Recommendations, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting

16. Chapter 12: Securing VB Applications

17. Chapter 13: Understanding and Managing Various Stages of a VB App

18. Chapter 14: Best Practices and Recommendations for VB Applications

19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting and Debugging VB Applications

20. Chapter 16: Managing VB Apps Using Visual Builder Studio

21. Assessments

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating application profiles

Application profiles make life easy when you switch the phases (Development to Stage, and Stage to Live) of your web or mobile application. If you use different application profiles specific to each instance, then you don't need to change the Service Connection credentials when you switch the phases of the VB application.

Application profiles are the reusable components and denote the instances (development, UAT, production, and so on) of the backend REST APIs. You can create different application profiles that are specific to the instance and use them while adding the backend servers, as shown in the previous section.

By default, an application profile is created with the name Base configuration. In order to access the application profiles, open any one of the VB applications, go to the Action menu from the top-right corner, click Settings, and then move to the Application Profiles tab.

The following screenshot shows the application profiles...