Time for action – creating the business components

Let us now create the business components using the following steps:

1. To create a new component, go to File | New; this can also be done by right-clicking on the Model project, the directory, or the folder, and selecting New.

2. In the Business Tier section, select ADF Business Components.

3. A Create Business Components from Tables wizard will open up for you; select the Entity Objects option.

   Note

   An entity object is a representation of a single row of the table. It is the metadata mapping of a single object in the data source table. We represent the EMP table as an entity object in ADF for the easy mapping of columns and business logic.

4. Enter the package for your entity object as com.empdirectory.model.entity and select HRSchema for your data source. You have an option to restrict the filter by table, view, synonym, and others.

5. In the Name filter, enter EMP% so that the filter is applied to query the data source. Click on Query to search for the filter...