Saturday, June 16, 2012

ADF binding classes explained

ADFBindingContext 
  - Life instance of the adfc-config.xml file
  - Exposes the security Context, Check permissions on an object
  - Exposes MDS Object Session

DCBindingContainer
  - Implmentation of the binding container interface
  - Represents the page definition file at runtime
  - At Runtime Binding is enclosed in a java object, that is this DcBindingContainer
  - All executable bindings, variables, can be obtained
  - #{binding}

BindingContext
  - Life representation of databindings.cpx file, which is the registry of pagedef files
  - It contains the reference to the datacontrols used
  - We can access and manipulate the data controls

DCIteratorBinding
  - browse through the collection of data
  - insert/update/delete data from data collection
  - Iterator binding links to the data source
  - All the operation on the data are internally performed on this DCIteratorBinding

OperationBinding
  - Call a custom method
  - Call the binding method

Friday, February 24, 2012

How to create a UCM connection from JDeveloper?

For many development purposes we need to connect to the content repository and retrieve the content at design time.

Step 1:

Select the Content Repository from the Application Resources -> Connections -> New Connection -> Content Repository

Step 2:

Select Repository Type: Oracle Content Server
Enter the RIDC scoket type, Server Host name, content server port and leave all others as they are.


Give the Credentials if you have them  else uncheck "Specify login credentials..." and then Click Ok

Step 3:

Open the connection in the application resources and browse through the files and folders