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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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

Chapter 5: Creating and Managing Service Connections

In the previous chapter, you learned about Business Objects, how to create and modify Business Objects, add formula fields, add relationships between Business Objects, create different business rules, and manage Business Object data. You explored various Business Object endpoints, how to use them, and how to switch embedded VB databases to point to the ATP database.

This chapter will focus on Service Connections, which is one of the main components that help us to call external REST APIs. Refer to Chapter 3, Exploring Visual Builder Ingredients, under the Exploring Service Connections section, to learn about Service Connections where we have explained this in detail. In this chapter, you will learn how to create Service Connections, manage Service Connections, and how to consume different types of REST API.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: