ADF Re-Usable Components

When we work on ADF components, we may want to reuse them across different projects, applications and teams. Oracle ADF and JDeveloper support to package reusable components and associated artefacts into an ADF Library JAR. An ADF Library JAR is a special JAR containing ADF components and appropriate control files for the components.

We can reuse the below adf components in many other applications.

>Data control

>Application module

>Business components

>Task flows and task flow templates

>Page templates

>Declarative components

Example to Reuse Bounded task flow in other application.

Creating ADF Library Jar File.

1.       Create ADF application with the required Business components, page templates and bounded task flows with a proper naming conventions by avoiding default names for model project, view Controller project and paths.

2.       Design a proper bounded task flow for each functionality so that we can create a regions and dynamic regions in another application with help of this. Create all necessary business components, pages and business logic.

3.       Save DataBindings.cpx file as with proper naming in the same path and edit the new file and replace id value with latest file name. Delete the old DataBindings.cpx file.

4.       Edit the adfm.xml file to with new DataBinding file name.

5.       Package the application into ADF Jar file by building the new deployment profile using View Controller Project >Deploy>New Deployment Profile. Make sure to include Model project as dependency.

6.       Deploy the View Controller project with newly created deployment profile to get the Jar file.

Now we can use this jar in another application to reuse the existing components.

Using the Created Library file in new Application.

1.       Create a new file system in Jdeveloper using Resource pallet which will direct to the available ADF Library Jar file.

2.       Create a new ADF Fusion Web Application and select the view project to add the library from the File System by right clicking on available jar file.

3.       Modify the Database connection properties if you are not using server data source or create a same data source in the server with same name as Library file data source.

4.       Now all the components from ADF library files are available to use in the new application.

In this way we can re-use the adf components from one application to another application with proper design.