Oracle JDeveloper 10g for Forms & PL/SQL Developers: A Guide to Web Development with Oracle ADF
by Peter Koletzke, Duncan Mills
Search and Edit Functions
The Search page in this hands-on practice provides a classic Query-by-Example (QBE) screen, with a search block at the top and a tabular results block at the bottom. QBE screens are often used as the start of a navigation path to an edit screen. Oracle Forms developers (particularly those who developed extensions for Oracle E-Business Suite applications) will likely have experience with this style because Oracle Forms applications offer native functions for Enter Query and Execute Query. QBE is also a classic design for web applications.
The processing sequence for a set of QBE screens consists of the following:
1. Display the search criteria fields. These are usually fields representing columns in the table containing ...
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