Creating the bindings manually

As we know, bindings can be created in the page definition file by dragging and dropping the binding data onto the page from the data control layer. However, sometimes we have to create the bindings manually just to access the underlying data programmatically. In this case, the option available to the user is to create the bindings using the Add option in the bindings section, and selecting the Generic Bindings category in the Insert Item window.

The bindings items available for users are are as follows:

• action: The action item is used to bind the operations available from the ADF model layer. The Data Controls palette will expose the methods from the view object collection or the application module, which can be mapped to the action item in the page definitions. Some common actions are Commit, Rollback, Create, and so on. These items are used commonly in the actionListener property of the ADF Button component to execute the actions such as #{bindings.Commit...