Introduction

In this chapter, we will address a different business requirement: a dashboard with different data visualization components such as graphs, gauges, and maps. Oracle ADF Faces provides a exhaustive set of data visualization components that cover almost all business needs. These components are called Oracle Data Visualization components.

Oracle ADF Data Visualization components provide significant graphical and tabular capabilities to display and analyze data. Any component that belongs to the ADF Data Visualization Tools (DVT) tag library is prefixed with dvt.

Data visualization components are usually used to create dashboards and views to provide analytical data about a business model. The recipes you are going to create in this chapter will all be created separately, but the output of these recipes will be displayed inside a single dashboard so that at the end of the chapter, you will have a single big dashboard with different components and views.

Also, in this chapter, you will...