Mills D., Koletzke P., Roy-Faderman A. Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook

Copyright 2010 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Pages 909.
A Guide to Oracle Fusion Web Development.
As the title and subtitle of the book states, we address the material in this book to those who wish
or need to use Oracle JDeveloper 11g to create web applications with the Fusion technologies —
the technologies Oracle uses to create Oracle Fusion Applications — the next generation of
Oracle’s packaged applications (which now includes Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel
CRM, and other applications products). This book is a handbook, not in the sense of a complete
guide to all areas of the tool (because that function is well handled in the online JDeveloper Help
Center) but in the sense that it is a guide for creating Java-enterprise standard, web applications
using JDeveloper 11g.
Although it may be erring on the conservative side, we assume that non-Java readers have no
knowledge of or experience in Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE or Java standards-based) web
development. We do assume that you have some experience at least with browsing web
applications and are familiar with the tasks required to develop a database application. Although
not a prerequisite, if you have worked on a Java EE web development project, you will be more
quickly able to absorb the concepts needed to understand web application work. You will gain
knowledge of best practices and solid techniques for JDeveloper work.
Java-aware readers will find chapters that dive into low-level techniques for interacting with
data using Oracle’s business services layer. In addition, we sneak some more advanced techniques
into the hands-on practices in Part V. Java folks will also become aware of the robust and highly
productive declarative techniques offered for writing applications in JDeveloper.
The 11g release of JDeveloper is quite a bit different from earlier releases, and even
developers, who have a head start to learning this version of the tool due to experience with
previous versions, will benefit from the discussion of the additional features in this version.