Creating a Task form with ADF Business Components

ADF-BC is the data model layer for ADF. It has the following prime components:

• Entity Objects: They represent a row in the data source, and you can modify their attributes. They encapsulate business logic as well, to validate your data. Entity objects are defined by specifying a table as they represents its rows, and rows are identified based on row key.

• View objects: They encapsulate the SQL queries. You can create a read-only view object when updates to data are not necessary. You can create entity-based View objects, static View objects, and programmatically populated View objects, too. Custom View objects can also be created. It's the View objects that collaborate with Entity Objects.

• View Links: They are used to represent the master-detail relationship between two View objects.

• Application Module: It is a smart data service that contains the data model of master-detail-related queries that your client interface needs to work...