10 Summary of the Oracle ADF Toy Store Application

The Oracle ADF Toy Store application, built using Oracle ADF and Apache Struts, was created to show a realistic, functional Oracle ADF-based web application. We've seen that the Java coding needed is minimal and that, when required, it is code that is focused directly on the business application problem at hand. Additionally, both Struts and Oracle ADF make extensive use of XML-based configuration information for their framework components, which further simplifies the design of the web pages by driving a lot of framework behavior from this metadata, rather than from a heavy code generation.

In the lessons of this case study, we analyzed many of the key aspects of the Oracle ADF Toy Store application to better understand how a web application like this can adhere to an MVC architecture. Along the way, we noted numerous Oracle JDeveloper 10g features for simplifying the development of our model, view, and controller layer components.

JDeveloper offers integrated support for:

• Binding your user interfaces to any kind of business service data, using a consistent, visual, and declarative approach

• Creating, configuring, and evolving every aspect of your web application through synchronized design time tools like the Application Navigator, the Structure window, the Property Inspector, wizards, and object editors

• Visually editing your Struts page flow, so as to more easily understand and modify all of the configuration information in your struts-config.xml file

• Visually designing your JSP pages, so as to more easily create web pages