• What is Oracle ADF?
• MVC architecture
• Benefits of ADF
• ADF architecture
• ADF Rich Faces
• JDeveloper tools

Entity Objects

• Introduction to Entity Objects
• Creating a Single Entity Object (and Default VO and AM)
• The Artifacts
• Creating a View Object
• Creating an Application Module
• Entity Objects, View Objects, and Application Modules
• Creating Multiple Entity Objects at Once
• The Business Component Diagram
• The ADF Model Tester
• Entity Object Data Types
• Entity Object Default Values
• Assigning Primary Keys Using Groovy
• Compound Primary Keys
• Updating and Refreshing Attributes
• Refreshing on Insert and Update
• More Attribute Properties
• UI Hints
• Entity Associations
• Creating Entity Associations
• Composition Entities
• Creating Database Tables from Entity Objects
• Synchronizing EOs with the Table Structure
• Refactoring Objects
• Programming Entity Objects (Optional Advanced Topic)

Entity Object Validation

• How entity object validation works
• Creating validations
• Compare validations
• Testing validations
• Dynamic error messages
• Key exists validator
• List validator
• Length validator
• Regular expression validator
• Range validator
• Entity validations
• Method validator
• Conditional validation

View Objects

• Overview of View Objects
• View Object Class Diagram
• View Object Instances
• Adding VOs to the App Module
• Creating a Read-Only View Object
• Static View Objects
• View Object Hints
• LOVs and LOV Hints
• View Links
• Testing VOs with ADF Model Tester
• Cascading VO Instances
• Using VOs in JSF
• VOs and Bind Variables
• ADF Parameter Forms
• View Criterias

Understanding Bindings

• What are Bindings?
• Adding Bindings
• The Data Controls Window
• Using Bindings with ADF Faces Components
• Binding Types
• Binding and Rebinding Tables
• Forms and Bindings
• Viewing Attribute Bindings
• Action Bindings
• Commit and Rollback Bindings

ADF Faces Components

• ADF Faces Form Components
• InputText and OutputText Components
• Autosubmit and PPR
• The Rich Text Editor
• Expression Language (EL)
• Converting Input and Output
• Client-Side Validation
• Number and Range Sliders
• Checkboxes
• Listboxes
• Selection components
• Single-Selection Components
• Populating SelectItems with Managed Beans
• Multiple Selection
• SelectManyShuttle and SelectOrderShuttle

ADF Rich Tables

• Creating Data-Bound ADF Rich Tables
• ADF Table Collection Model
• ADF Tree Bindings
• ADF Table Structure
• Table Behavior Attributes
• Tables and Containers
• Row and Column Selection
• Table Columns
• Displaying Row Numbers
• Column Appearance Attributes
• Table and Column Facets
• Column Behavior Attributes
• Freezing Columns
• Table Event Listeners
• Row Banding
• Changing the Editing Mode
• Deleting and Inserting Rows
• Committing changes
• Table Row Disclosure
• Master-Detail(-Detail) Tables

ADF Rich Trees and TreeTables

• ADF Trees
• The Tree Model
• Creating a Tree
• Tree Attributes
• Selecting Tree Nodes
• Node Stamping
• Tree Node Disclosure
• DisclosedRowKeys Attribute
• Tree Tables
• Passing a Row from a Tree or Table
• Exporting Data from Trees and Tables

• Introduction to taskflows
• Bounded Vs. Unbounded Task Flows
• Activities
• The adfc-config.xml file
• Creating an Unbounded Task Flow
• Editing a Task Flow
• View Activities
• Adding a JSF Page to a Task Flow
• Bookmarking View Activities
• Control Flow Cases and Navigation
• Wild Cards
• Working with Managed Beans
• Method Call Activities
• Built-In ADF Operations
• Router Activities
• URL View Activities
• Exception Handling

Bounded Task Flows

• Introduction to Bounded Task Flows
• The Default Activity
• Task Flow Call Activities
• Task Flow Reentry Behavior
• Task Flow Return Activity
• Declarative Transaction Handling
• Working with Save Points
• Checking for Dirty Data
• Passing Parameters to a Bounded Task Flow
• Launching Bounded Task Flows in a New Window
• Page Fragments
• ADF Regions – Static and Dynamic
• Region Navigation Listener

Popups and Dialogs

• Popup Types
• Viewing Popups in Design Mode
• Launching Simple Popup
• Positioning and Sizing Popups
• Content Delivery
• Dialogs
• Dialog Listeners
• Accessing Operation Bindings
• Overriding Button Labels
• Adding Custom Buttons
• Cancelling Events
• PanelWindow Popups
• Context Menu Popups
• Invoking Popups from JavaScript

Navigation

• Menu Bars, Menus, and Menu Items
• Nesting Menus
• Tool Bars
• Tool Boxes
• Menu Models
• Adding Navigation to Page Templates
• Navigation Panes
• Creating Pages from a Page Template
• Bread Crumbs
• Trains

Web Services

• What is a Web Service?
• SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
• Producing a Web Service from an Application Module
• Consuming Web Services
• The Web Service Data Control
• Creating a Web Service Proxy
• Securing a Web Service

Security

• ADF Security Levels
• ADF Security Flow
• Setting ADF Security from JDeveloper
• ADF Security Artifacts
• Public Vs. Protected Pages
• Application Roles
• Users and Enterprise Roles
• Explicit and Implicit Authentication
• Login Forms
• The ADF Authentication Servlet

Deployment

• What is Deployment?
• Deployment Steps
• Installing Runtime JARs
• Creating the Application Server Connection
• Deployment Profiles
• Deploying Security

Appendix: Programming ADF Business Objects

• Programmatically Accessing View Objects
• Setting Bind Variables
• Creating View Criteria
• Navigating Master-Detail View Objects
• Enabling Custom Business Component Programming
• Custom Java Classes
• Creating Calculated Attributes
• Overriding EO Methods
• View Object Custom Methods
• Finding EOs by Primary Key
• The ADF API

Appendix: Troubleshooting ADF

• Troubleshooting Overview
• ADF Model Tester
• Expression Language Builder
• Page Definition Errors
• Java Logging
• Break Points
• Break Point Groups
• Debugging Configurations
• The Stack

Appendix: The ADF Lifecycle

• The JSF Lifecycle
• JSF Global Phase Listeners
• JSF Local Phase Listeners
• FacesContext Object
• The ADF Lifecycle
• Memory Scopes
• Partial Page Rendering (PPR)
• ADF Phase Listeners