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During the closing keynote at the Oracle Fusion Middleware Forum XX in Budapest my former colleague Lucas Jellema and I delivered a live development demo. It was great fun to do. During this demo I developed an Oracle MAF frontend on top of Oracle SOA Suite 12c REST-JSON services. All in all it was a good session that was exactly delivered on-time with no errors. I think the demo gods where with us. In this post I describe some of the details regarding the Oracle MAF part of this demo. To be more specific, how the MAF application is able to work with the REST-JSON Services. In a later post I will go into the details of how to user interface was built. The details of the SOA suite 12c Backend are described by Lucas at the AMIS Technology blog in the following posts: Preparing  , Implementing part - 1   and Implementing part – 2 Before I start with the details I best describe the case first. We decided to create a tablet app that can be used by flight attendants...

Today Oracle published the first in a series of online eLearning training materials. The ADF Academy presents free and online : Developing Applications with ADF Mobile. The main goal is to deliver technical training material to everybody that needs it. You get an online training, where you can view audio and video to learn ADF. Whenever you want to you can stop the recordings to try out everything that you learned so far, or perhaps to get a drink. Developing Applications with ADF Mobile is available here . Take to opportunity and learn to work with a great framework to develop mobile applications for iOS and Adroid. Also keep an eye on lucbors.blogspot.com for more ADF Mobile related content.

One very common pattern in Mobile Apps is the use of "pull" to refresh a list of data in an App. For one of my projects I suggested to use this pattern and I had to figure out a way to implement this in ADF Mobile. In this post I show you a way to implement this. If you are only interested in the refresh part, you might want to skip the first 5 steps. These explain in short the webservice and the basic ADF Mobile app. From step 6 on I explain how to implement the pattern. 1. The webservice For this example I use a simple webservice that returns a List of Locations. The webservice is a service enabled Application Module. I simply created Business Component (EO and VO) on the Locations table from the HR schema. I exposed the Locations view object as AllLocations, and added a method called getCurrentCount() on the Application Module Impl class.  This method simply invokes the getEstimatedRowCount() to find out the number of rows. Next I created a new Service Interface on ...

During the AMIS ADF Masterclass I showed how to take a picture from within an ADF Mobile application, attach it to an Email and send that email out to several recipients. To top it of, I even added the GPS coordinates to the subject, so you know where the picture was taken. And all of that with the push of one single button. Sounds complicated ? Well actually it is very simple. There are two ways to interact with device services. One is by using the page Definition, the second is by using the API.I decided not to use the pageDef, but to invoke the device datacontrol from java by using the API. Then it is also possible to invoke multiple actions in one java method. In this case I take a picture, get the coordinates and send an email. How to take a picture ? Taking a picture is easy. Just call the getPicture() method, and make sure (for this use case) to set Destination Type to File. public String getPicture(){     //destinationType = 1 so that the image is returned as...

Now ADF Mobile is generally availble, it is now time to create your first ADF Mobile application. In this post I will show you how to create a simple application that contains of two pages with navigation. A bonus for this post is that you will see how to get a picture from the filesystem (or by using the device camera) from within your ADF mobile application Getting started To work with ADF mobile you need to download the JDeveloper 11.1.2.3 and the ADF mobile extension and install both. After installing JDeveloper and adding the ADF Mobile extension, you will be able to create a new ADF Mobile Application. In the new gallery you wil find the ‘Mobile Application’ under the applications node. Accept all the defaults and the JDeveloper application is created for you. What you see are two projects. One called the application controller, and a second one, the viewController. JDeveloper also adds application-level and project-level artifacts. The applicationController contains s...

After extensive beta testing oracle announced last week that ADF Mobile is now generally available and can be used to build multi platform on device apps. I finally am allowed to share my knowledge in blogposts and other kinds of publications. Using JDeveloper and the ADF Mobile extension, it is very easy to create apps for both the iOS and Android platform. If you only want to create apps for Android, you don’t need a mac, however if you want to create apps voor iOS you really do need a mac to compile the ADF mobile app for iOS. ADF Mobile provides a natural extension of enterprise/internet applications to mobile clients by providing tools, services, and infrastructure to protect against technology shifts. An application built with ADF Mobile framework installs on a smart device, renders user interface via HTML5, and has access to device services. This means the programming model is primarily web-based, which offers consistency with other enterprise applications as well as easier ...

Last week I attended OBUG Connect Conference, the Oracle Benelux User Group Conference. It was a great conference where I presented about the new to come ADF Mobile Framework. This is not yet Generally Available, but because of the good relationship with Oracle Productmanagement I was able to get hold of some very early sneak peaks so I could prepare a great presentation. I am not yet able to share anything in this post, however, feel free to contact me if you need to know more. I will see what I can do for you. As soon as I can share the presentation, I will host a link on my blog. There is an oline photo impression of this conference, with a couple of photos of the presentation, and the live Fusion Middleware Development session. Not only did I do my presentation, I was also part of the live Fusion Middleware Development team, next to Ronald van Luttikhuizen, Lonneke Dikmans, Steven Davelaar, Edwin Biemond en Lucas Jellema. An impression of this session can be found ...