Building data bound table UIs

The table UI is one of the very popular UI components for presenting a collection of rows to end users. In general, displaying data collection on a table UI involves the following tasks:

  • Invoking business services for reading data collection
  • Populating the UI with retrieved collection

The data bound UI table offered by the Oracle ADF framework does the above tasks out of the box. The steps for building a data bound table are as follows:

  1. Drag the view object instance from the Data Controls panel and drop it on the visual designer for the page. Doing so displays a context menu with a list of possible UI components to display the data collection.
  2. Select Table | ADF Table in the context menu.
  3. In the Edit Table Columns dialog ...

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