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During one of my presentations at ODTUG KScope12 in San Antonio I showed how to add a menu with close this / close others / close all to the UIShell. This pattern is very common throughout modern browsers and other programs that use any kind of tabbed navigation. Even JDeveloper itself uses this functionality. In this post I'll describe how to add this functionality to the UIShell. The UI Shell. The UIShell used in this post is not the UIShell that can be downloaded from Oracle OTN. There are several reasons why I do not use this particular UIShell, but the main reason is that it is not state safe. The UI Shell that I use, is the one that is available on blogs.oracle.com/jheadstart/entry/core_adf11_uishell_with_dynamic With that UI Shell it is actually very simple to implement this pattern. The Menu Itself The menu is implemented in a popup, containing a menu component woth nested commandmenuitems. These items are responsible for either close this, close all and close ...

I landed only a couple of hours ago and here's my report form Kscope 2012 in San Antonio. As I write this, KScope is still waking up for the final day. Anyway, for me KScope was over yesterday. The venue, the JW Marriott San Antonio, was IMHO somewhat in the middle of nowhere, which is a pity given the fact that downtown San Antonio is beautiful. It took the free shuttle bus about 35 minutes to get there. Anyway, I was not around for site seeing, I was visiting the conference. At the conference I joined the Fusion Middleware track, not only as an attendee but also as a presenter of two sessions.. With over 30 sessions and the Sunday Symposium, this years FMW track again was a very usefull track for everyone that wanted to learn about FMW.Most of the session where ADF related, however there were a couple of webcenter and SOA sessions as well. Sunday The FMW Sunday symposium started with a status update for Oracle ADF. Three product managers (sorry...