Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

Part I Getting Started with ADF Faces

1 Introduction to ADF Faces Rich Client

• 1.1 Introduction to Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client
  • 1.1.1 History of ADF Faces
  • 1.1.2 ADF Faces as Rich Client Components
• 1.2 Architecture of ADF Faces Components
  • 1.2.1 Client-Side Components
  • 1.2.2 ADF Faces Architectural Features
• 1.3 ADF Faces Components
• 1.4 ADF Faces Demonstration Application
  • 1.4.1 How to Download and Install the ADF Faces Demo Application
  • 1.4.2 Overview of the File Explorer Application
  • 1.4.3 Viewing the Source Code In JDeveloper

2 Getting Started with ADF Faces

• 2.1 Developing Declaratively in JDeveloper
• 2.2 Creating an Application Workspace
  • 2.2.1 How to Create an Application Workspace
  • 2.2.2 What Happens When You Create an Application Workspace
• 2.3 Defining Page Flows
  • 2.3.1 How to Define a Page Flow
  • 2.3.2 What Happens When You Use the Diagrammer to Create a Page Flow
• 2.4 Creating a JSF Page
  • 2.4.1 How to Create JSF Pages
  • 2.4.2 What Happens When You Create a JSF Page
  • 2.4.3 What You May Need to Know About Automatic Component Binding
  • 2.4.4 How to Add ADF Faces Components to JSF Pages
  • 2.4.5 What Happens When You Add Components to a Page
  • 2.4.6 How to Set Component Attributes
  • 2.4.7 What Happens When You Use the Property Inspector
• 2.5 Creating EL Expressions
  • 2.5.1 How to Create an EL Expression
  • 2.5.2 How to Use EL Expressions Within Managed Beans
• 2.6 Creating and Using Managed Beans
  • 2.6.1 How to Create a Managed Bean in JDeveloper
  • 2.6.2 What Happens When You Use JDeveloper to Create a Managed Bean
• 2.7 Viewing ADF Faces Source Code and Javadoc

Part II Understanding ADF Faces Architecture

3 Using ADF Faces Architecture

• 3.1 Introduction to Using ADF Faces Architecture
• 3.2 Listening for Client Events
• 3.3 Adding JavaScript to a Page
  • 3.3.1 How to Use Inline JavaScript
  • 3.3.2 How to Import JavaScript Libraries
  • 3.3.3 What You May Need to Know About Accessing Client Event Sources
• 3.4 Instantiating Client-Side Components
• 3.5 Locating a Client Component on a Page
  • 3.5.1 What You May Need to Know About Finding Components in Naming Containers
• 3.6 Accessing Component Properties on the Client
  • 3.6.1 How to Set Property Values on the Client
  • 3.6.2 What Happens at Runtime: How Client Properties Are Set on the Client
  • 3.6.3 What You May Need to Know About Secured and Disconnected Properties
• 3.7 Using Bonus Attributes for Client-Side Components
  • 3.7.1 How to Create Bonus Attributes
  • 3.7.2 What You May Need to Know About Marshalling Bonus Attributes
• 3.8 Understanding Rendering and Visibility
  • 3.8.1 How to Set Visibility Using Javascript
  • 3.8.2 What You May Need to Know About Visible and the isShowing Function

4 Understanding the JSF and ADF Faces Lifecycles

• 4.1 Introduction to the JSF and ADF Faces Lifecycles
• 4.2 The JSF Lifecycle
  • 4.2.1 Using the Immediate Attribute
• 4.3 Using the Optimized Lifecycle
  • 4.3.1 What You May Need to Know About Using the Immediate Attribute and the Optimized Lifecycle
• 4.4 Using the Client-Side Lifecycle
• 4.5 Using Subforms to Create Regions on a Page
• 4.6 Object Scope Lifecycles
• 4.7 Passing Values Between Pages
  • 4.7.1 How to Use the pageFlowScope Scope Within Java Code
  • 4.7.2 How to Use the pageFlowScope Scope Without Writing Java Code
  • 4.7.3 What Happens at Runtime: Passing Values

5 Handling Events

• 5.1 Introduction to Events and Event Handling
  • 5.1.1 Events and Partial Page Rendering
  • 5.1.2 Client-Side Event Model
• 5.2 Using ADF Faces Server Events
  • 5.2.1 How to Use Server-Side Events
• 5.3 Using JavaScript for ADF Faces Client Events
  • 5.3.1 How to Return the Original Source of the Event
  • 5.3.2 Using Client-Side Attributes for an Event
  • 5.3.3 How to Prevent Events from Propagating to the Server
  • 5.3.4 How to Trigger Event Handler Execution
  • 5.3.5 What Happens at Runtime: How Client-Side Events Work
  • 5.3.6 What You May Need to Know About Using Naming Containers
• 5.4 Sending Custom Events from the Client to the Server
  • 5.4.1 How to Send Custom Events from the Client to the Server
  • 5.4.2 What Happens at Runtime: How Client and Server Listeners Work Together
  • 5.4.3 What You May Need to Know About Marshalling and Unmarshalling of Data
• 5.5 Executing a Script Within an Event Response
• 5.6 Using Client Behavior Tags

6 Validating and Converting Input

• 6.1 Introduction to ADF Faces Converters and Validators
• 6.2 Conversion, Validation, and the JSF Lifecycle
• 6.3 Adding Conversion
  • 6.3.1 How to Add a Converter
  • 6.3.2 How to Set Attributes on a Converter
  • 6.3.3 What Happens at Runtime
• 6.4 Creating Custom JSF Converters
  • 6.4.1 How to Create a Custom JSF Converter
  • 6.4.2 What Happens When You Use a Custom Converter
• 6.5 Adding Validation
  • 6.5.1 How to Add Validation
    • 6.5.1.1 Adding ADF Faces Validation
    • 6.5.1.2 Using Validation Attributes
    • 6.5.1.3 Using ADF Faces Validators
  • 6.5.2 What Happens at Runtime
  • 6.5.3 What You May Need to Know About Multiple Validators
• 6.6 Creating Custom JSF Validation
  • 6.6.1 How to Create a Backing Bean Validation Method
  • 6.6.2 What Happens When You Create a Backing Bean Validation Method
  • 6.6.3 How to Create a Custom JSF Validator
  • 6.6.4 What Happens When You Use a Custom JSF Validator

7 Rerendering Partial Page Content

• 7.1 Introduction to Partial Page Rendering
• 7.2 Enabling Partial Page Rendering Declaratively
  • 7.2.1 How to Enable Partial Page Rendering
  • 7.2.2 What You May Need to Know About Using the Browser Back Button
  • 7.2.3 What You May Need to Know About PPR and Screen Readers
• 7.3 Enabling Partial Page Rendering Programmatically
• 7.4 Partial Page Navigation
  • 7.4.1 How to Enable PPR Navigation
  • 7.4.2 What You May Need to Know About PPR Navigation

Part III Using ADF Faces Components

8 Organizing Content on Web Pages

• 8.1 Introduction to Organizing Content on Web Pages
• 8.2 Starting to Lay Out a Page
  • 8.2.1 Geometry Management and Component Stretching
  • 8.2.2 Nesting Components Inside Components That Allow Stretching
  • 8.2.3 Tips for Using Geometry Managed Components
• 8.3 Arranging Contents to Stretch Across a Page
  • 8.3.1 How to Use the panelStretchLayout Component
  • 8.3.2 What You May Need to Know About Geometry Management and the panelStretchLayout Component
• 8.4 Using Splitters to Create Resizable Panes
  • 8.4.1 How to Use the panelSplitter Component
  • 8.4.2 What You May Need to Know About Geometry Management and the panelSplitter Component
• 8.5 Arranging Page Contents in Predefined Areas
  • 8.5.1 How to Use the panelBorderLayout Component
• 8.6 Arranging Content in Forms
  • 8.6.1 How to Use the panelFormLayout Component
  • 8.6.2 What You May Need to Know About Using the group Component with the panelFormLayout Component
• 8.7 Displaying and Hiding Contents Dynamically
  • 8.7.1 How to Use the showDetail Component
  • 8.7.2 How to Use the showDetailHeader Component
  • 8.7.3 How to Use the panelBox Component
  • 8.7.4 What You May Need to Know About Disclosure Events
• 8.8 Displaying or Hiding Contents in Accordion Panels and Tabbed Panels
  • 8.8.1 How to Use the PanelAccordion Component
  • 8.8.2 How to Use the panelTabbed Component
  • 8.8.3 How to Use the showDetailItem Component to Display Content in panelAccordion or panelTabbed Components
  • 8.8.4 What You May Need to Know About Geometry Management and the showDetailItem Component
  • 8.8.5 What You May Need to Know About showDetailItem Disclosure Events
• 8.9 Displaying Items in a Content Container
  • 8.9.1 How to Use the panelHeader Component
• 8.10 Displaying a Bulleted List in One or More Columns
  • 8.10.1 How to Use the panelList Component
  • 8.10.2 What You May Need to Know About Creating a List Hierarchy
• 8.11 Grouping Related Items
  • 8.11.1 How to Use the panelGroupLayout Component
  • 8.11.2 What You May Need to Know About Geometry Management and the panelGroupLayout Component
• 8.12 Separating Content Using Blank Space or Lines
  • 8.12.1 How to Use the spacer Component
  • 8.12.2 How to Use the Separator Component

9 Using Input Components and Defining Forms

• 9.1 Introduction to Input Components and Forms
• 9.2 Defining Forms
  • 9.2.1 How to Add a Form to a Page
  • 9.2.2 How to Add a Subform to a Page
  • 9.2.3 How to Add a Reset Button to a Form
• 9.3 Using the inputText Component
  • 9.3.1 How to Add an inputText Component
• 9.4 Using the Input Number Components
  • 9.4.1 How to Add an inputNumberSlider or an inputRangeSlider Component
  • 9.4.2 How to Add an inputNumberSpinbox Component
• 9.5 Using Color and Date Choosers
  • 9.5.1 How to Add an inputColor Component
  • 9.5.2 How to Add an InputDate Component
• 9.6 Using Selection Components
  • 9.6.1 How to Add Selection Components
• 9.7 Using Shuttle Components
  • 9.7.1 How to Add a selectManyShuttle or selectOrderShuttle Component
  • 9.7.2 What You May Need to Know About Using a Client Listener for Selection Events
• 9.8 Using the richTextEditor Component
• 9.9 Using File Upload
  • 9.9.1 How to Use the inputFile Component
  • 9.9.2 What You May Need to Know About Temporary File Storage

10 Presenting Data in Tables and Trees

• 10.1 Introduction to Tables, Trees, and Tree Tables
  • 10.1.1 Content Delivery
  • 10.1.2 Row Selection
  • 10.1.3 Editing Data in Tables, Trees, and Tree Tables
  • 10.1.4 Using Popup Dialogs in Tables, Trees, and Tree Tables
  • 10.1.5 Accessing Client Table, Tree, and Tree Table Components
• 10.2 Displaying Data in Tables
  • 10.2.1 Columns and Column Data
  • 10.2.2 Formatting Tables
  • 10.2.3 Formatting Columns
  • 10.2.4 How to Display a Table on a Page
  • 10.2.5 What Happens When You Add a Table to a Page
  • 10.2.6 What Happens at Runtime
  • 10.2.7 What You May Need to Know About Programmatically Enabling Sorting for Table Columns
  • 10.2.8 What You May Need to Know About Performing an Action on Selected Rows in Tables
  • 10.2.9 What You May Need to Know About Dynamically Determining Values for Selected Components in Tables
  • 10.2.10 What You May Need to Know About Using the Iterator Tag
• 10.3 Adding Hidden Capabilities to a Table
  • 10.3.1 How to Use the detailStamp Facet
  • 10.3.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 10.4 Enabling Filtering in Tables
  • 10.4.1 How to Add Filtering to a Table
• 10.5 Displaying Data in Trees
  • 10.5.1 How to Display Data in Trees
  • 10.5.2 What Happens When You Add a Tree to a Page
  • 10.5.3 What Happens at Runtime
  • 10.5.4 What You May Need to Know About Programmatically Expanding and Collapsing Nodes
  • 10.5.5 What You May Need to Know About Programmatically Selecting Nodes
• 10.6 Displaying Data in Tree Tables
  • 10.6.1 How to Display Data in a Tree Table
• 10.7 Passing a Row as a Value
• 10.8 Displaying Table Menus, Toolbars, and Status Bars
  • 10.8.1 How to Add a panelCollection with a Table, Tree, or Tree Table
• 10.9 Exporting Data from Table, Tree, or Tree Table
  • 10.9.1 How to Export Table, Tree, or Tree Table Data to an External Format
  • 10.9.2 What Happens at Runtime: How Row Selection Affects the Exported Data
• 10.10 Accessing Selected Values on the Client From Components that Use Stamping
  • 10.10.1 How to Access Values From a Selection in Stamped Components.
  • 10.10.2 What You May Need to Know About Accessing Selected Values

11 Using List-of-Values Components

• 11.1 Introduction to List-of-Values Components
• 11.2 Creating the ListOfValues Data Model
• 11.3 Using the inputListOfValues Component
• 11.4 Using the InputComboboxListOfValues Component

12 Using Query Components

• 12.1 Introduction to Query Components
• 12.2 Implementing the Model for Your Query
• 12.3 Using the quickQuery Component
  • 12.3.1 How to Add the quickQuery Component Using a Model
  • 12.3.2 How to Use a quickQuery Component Without a Model
  • 12.3.3 What Happens at Runtime: How the Framework Renders the quickQuery Component and Executes the Search
• 12.4 Using the query Component
  • 12.4.1 How to Add the Query Component

13 Using Popup Dialogs, Menus, and Windows

• 13.1 Introduction to Using Popup Elements
• 13.2 Creating Inline Popup Elements
  • 13.2.1 Showing and Hiding Popup Elements
  • 13.2.2 Delivering Content to the Client
  • 13.2.3 Using Dialog Buttons
  • 13.2.4 How to Create an Inline Dialog
  • 13.2.5 How to Create an Inline Window
  • 13.2.6 How to Create an Inline Context Menu
• 13.3 Using Command Components to Show Popup Elements
  • 13.3.1 How to Use the af:showPopupBehavior Tag
• 13.4 External Browser Popup Window
  • 13.4.1 How to Create External Dialogs and Page Flows
    • 13.4.1.1 Defining a JSF Navigation Rule for Opening a Dialog
    • 13.4.1.2 Creating the JSF Page That Opens a Dialog
    • 13.4.1.3 Creating the Dialog Page and Returning a Dialog Value
    • 13.4.1.4 Passing a Value into a Dialog
    • 13.4.1.5 Handling the Return Value

14 Using Menus, Toolbars, and Toolboxes

• 14.1 Introduction to Menus, Toolbars, and Toolboxes
• 14.2 Using Menus in a Menu Bar
  • 14.2.1 How to Create and Use Menus in a Menu Bar
• 14.3 Using Toolbars
  • 14.3.1 How to Create and Use Toolbars
  • 14.3.2 What Happens at Runtime: Determining the Size of Toolbars
  • 14.3.3 What You May Need to Know About Toolbars

15 Presenting Data Using Output Components

• 15.1 Introduction to Output Text, Image, Icon, and Media Components
• 15.2 Displaying Output Text and Formatted Output Text
  • 15.2.1 How to Display Output Text
• 15.3 Displaying Icons
  • 15.3.1 How to Display a Standard Icon
• 15.4 Displaying Images
• 15.5 Using Images as Links
  • 15.5.1 How to Use an Image as One or More Go Links
• 15.6 Downloading Files
  • 15.6.1 How to Create a File Download
• 15.7 Playing Video and Audio Clips
  • 15.7.1 Media Players
  • 15.7.2 Display Size
  • 15.7.3 Controls
  • 15.7.4 Automatic Start and Repeated Play
  • 15.7.5 How to Play Audio and Video Clips

16 Displaying Tips, Messages, and Help

• 16.1 Introduction to Displaying Tips and Messages
• 16.2 Displaying Tips for Components
  • 16.2.1 How to Display Tips for Components
• 16.3 Displaying Hints and Error Messages for Validation and Conversion
  • 16.3.1 How to Define Custom Validator and Converter Messages
  • 16.3.2 What You May Need to Know About Overriding Default Messages Globally
  • 16.3.3 How to Display Component Messages Inline
  • 16.3.4 How to Display Global Messages Inline
• 16.4 Grouping Components with a Single Label and Message
  • 16.4.1 How to Use a panelLabelAndMessage Component
• 16.5 Displaying Help for Components
  • 16.5.1 How to Create Resource Bundle-Based Help
  • 16.5.2 How to Create XLIFF-Based Help
  • 16.5.3 How to Create Managed Bean Help
  • 16.5.4 How to Create a Java Class Help Provider
  • 16.5.5 How to Access Help Content from a UI Component
  • 16.5.6 What You May Need to Know About Combining Different Message Types

17 Working with Navigation Components

• 17.1 Introduction to Navigation Components
• 17.2 Using Buttons and Links for Navigation
  • 17.2.1 How to Use Command Buttons and Command Links
  • 17.2.2 How to Use Go Buttons and Go Links
• 17.3 Using Navigation Items for a Page Hierarchy
• 17.4 Creating a Simple Navigational Hierarchy
  • 17.4.1 How to Create a Simple Page Hierarchy
  • 17.4.2 How to Use the breadCrumbs Component
• 17.5 Using a Menu Model to Create a Page Hierarchy
  • 17.5.1 How to Create the Menu Model Metadata
  • 17.5.2 What Happens When You Use the Create ADF Menu Model Wizard
  • 17.5.3 How to Bind to the XMLMenuModel in the JSF Page
  • 17.5.4 How to Use the breadCrumbs Component
  • 17.5.5 What Happens at Runtime
  • 17.5.6 What You May Need to Know About Custom Node Attributes
• 17.6 Using Train Components to Create Navigation Items for a Multi-Step Process
  • 17.6.1 How to Create the Train Model
  • 17.6.2 How to Configure Managed Beans for the Train Model
  • 17.6.3 How to Bind to the Train Model in JSF Pages

18 Creating and Reusing Fragments, Templates, and Components

• 18.1 Introduction to Reusable Content
• 18.2 Using Page Fragments
  • 18.2.1 How to Create a Page Fragment
  • 18.2.2 What Happens When You Create a Page Fragment
  • 18.2.3 How to Use a Page Fragment in a JSF Page
  • 18.2.4 What Happens at Runtime: Resolving Page Fragments
• 18.3 Using Page Templates
  • 18.3.1 How to Create a Page Template
  • 18.3.2 What Happens When You Create a Page Template
  • 18.3.3 How to Create JSF Pages Based on Page Templates
  • 18.3.4 What Happens When You Use a Template to Create a Page
  • 18.3.5 What Happens at Runtime: How Page Templates Are Resolved
  • 18.3.6 What You May Need to Know About Templates and Naming Containers
• 18.4 Using Declarative Components
  • 18.4.1 How to Create a Declarative Component
  • 18.4.2 What Happens When You Create a Declarative Component
  • 18.4.3 How to Deploy Declarative Components
  • 18.4.4 How to Use Declarative Components in JSF Pages
  • 18.4.5 What Happens When You Use a Declarative Component on a JSF Page
  • 18.4.6 What Happens at Runtime

19 Customizing the Appearance Using Styles and Skins

• 19.1 Introduction to Skins, Style Selectors, and Style Properties
  • 19.1.1 Oracle ADF Faces Skins
  • 19.1.2 Skin Style Selectors
  • 19.1.3 Component Style Properties
• 19.2 Applying Custom Skins to Applications
  • 19.2.1 How to Add a Custom Skin to an Application
  • 19.2.2 How to Register a Custom Skin
  • 19.2.3 How to Configure an Application to Use a Custom Skin
  • 19.2.4 How to Deploy a Custom Skin in a JAR file
• 19.3 Defining Skin Style Properties
  • 19.3.1 How to Apply Skins to Text
  • 19.3.2 How to Apply Skins to Icons
  • 19.3.3 How to Apply Skins to Messages
  • 19.3.4 How to Apply Themes to Components
    • 19.3.4.1 What You May Need to Know About Theme Inheritance
  • 19.3.5 How to Create a Custom Alias
  • 19.3.6 How to Configure a Component for Changing Skins Dynamically
• 19.4 Changing the Style Properties of a Component
  • 19.4.1 How to Set an Inline Style
  • 19.4.2 How to Set a Style Class

20 Internationalizing and Localizing Pages

• 20.1 Introduction to Internationalization and Localization of ADF Faces Pages
• 20.2 Defining Locales and Resource Bundles
  • 20.2.1 How to Define the Base Resource Bundle
  • 20.2.2 How to Edit a Resource Bundle File
  • 20.2.3 How to Register Locales and Resource Bundles in Your Application
  • 20.2.4 How to Use Resource Bundles in Your Application
  • 20.2.5 What You May Need to Know About Custom Skins and Control Hints
• 20.3 Using Automatic Resource Bundle Integration in JDeveloper
  • 20.3.1 How to Set Resource Bundle Options
• 20.4 Configuring Optional ADF Faces Localization Properties
  • 20.4.1 How to Configure Optional Localization Properties

21 Developing Accessible ADF Faces Pages

• 21.1 Introduction to Accessible ADF Faces Pages
• 21.2 Developing Accessible ADF Faces Components and Pages
  • 21.2.1 Using ADF Faces Component Accessibility Guidelines
  • 21.2.2 How to Run an ADF Faces Accessibility Rules Audit
  • 21.2.3 How to Use Partial Page Rendering
  • 21.2.4 How to Use Scripting
  • 21.2.5 How to Use Styles
  • 21.2.6 How to Use Page Structures and Navigation
• 21.3 Defining Access Keys for ADF Faces Components
  • 21.3.1 How to Define Access Keys for an ADF Faces Component
  • 21.3.2 How to Define Localized Labels and Access Keys
• 21.4 Selecting Accessibility Modes
  • 21.4.1 How to Configure Accessibility Support in trinidad-config.xml
• 21.5 Providing Text for Screen Reader Support
  • 21.5.1 How to Provide Screen Reader Support for Images, Icons and Other Objects
  • 21.5.2 How to Provide Screen Reader Support for Frames
  • 21.5.3 How to Provide Screen Reader Support for Tables
  • 21.5.4 How to Provide Screen Reader Support for Text

Part IV Using ADF Data Visualization Components

22 Introduction to ADF Data Visualization Components

• 22.1 Introducing ADF Data Visualization Components
• 22.2 Defining the ADF Data Visualization Components
  • 22.2.1 Graph
  • 22.2.2 Gauge
  • 22.2.3 Pivot Table
  • 22.2.4 Geographic Map
  • 22.2.5 Gantt
• 22.3 Providing Data for ADF Data Visualization Components
• 22.4 Downloading Custom Fonts for Flash Images

23 Using ADF Graph Components

• 23.1 Introduction to the ADF Graph Component
• 23.2 Understanding the ADF Graph Tags
  • 23.2.1 Graph-Specific Tags
  • 23.2.2 Common Graph Child Tags
  • 23.2.3 Graph-Specific Child Tags
  • 23.2.4 Child Set Tags
• 23.3 Understanding Data Requirements for Graphs
  • 23.3.1 Area Graphs Data Requirements
  • 23.3.2 Bar Graph Data Requirements
  • 23.3.3 Bubble Graph Data Requirements
  • 23.3.4 Combination Graph Data Requirements
  • 23.3.5 Funnel Graph Data Requirements
  • 23.3.6 Line Graph Data Requirements
  • 23.3.7 Pareto Graph Data Requirements
  • 23.3.8 Pie Graph Data Requirements
  • 23.3.9 Polar Graph Data Requirements
  • 23.3.10 Radar Graph Data Requirements
  • 23.3.11 Scatter Graph Data Requirements
  • 23.3.12 Stock Graph Data Requirements
    • 23.3.12.1 Stock Graphs: High-Low-Close
    • 23.3.12.2 Stock Graphs: High-Low-Close with Volume
    • 23.3.12.3 Stock Graphs: Open-High-Low-Close
    • 23.3.12.4 Stock Graphs: Open-High-Low-Close with Volume
    • 23.3.12.5 Candle Stock Graphs: Open-Close
    • 23.3.12.6 Candle Stock Graphs: Open-Close with Volume
    • 23.3.12.7 Candle Stock Graphs: Open-High-Low-Close
    • 23.3.12.8 Candle Stock Graphs: Open-High-Low-Close with Volume
• 23.4 Creating an ADF Graph
  • 23.4.1 How to Create a Graph Using Tabular Data
    • 23.4.1.1 Storing Tabular Data for a Graph in a Managed Bean
    • 23.4.1.2 Creating a Graph Using Tabular Data
  • 23.4.2 What Happens When You Create a Graph Using Tabular Data
• 23.5 Customizing Common Graph Features
  • 23.5.1 Changing the Color and Style of Graph Bars, Lines, Areas, Points, and Slices
    • 23.5.1.1 How to Specify the Color and Style for Individual Series Items
    • 23.5.1.2 How to Control the Number of Different Colors Used for Series Items
  • 23.5.2 Formatting Numbers in Graphs
    • 23.5.2.1 How to Format Numbers in the Y1-Axis of a Graph
    • 23.5.2.2 What Happens When You Format the Numbers in the Y1-Axis of a Graph
    • 23.5.2.3 How to Format Numbers for the Marker Text of a Graph
    • 23.5.2.4 What Happens When You Format Numbers in the Marker Text of a Graph
  • 23.5.3 Formatting Text in Graphs
  • 23.5.4 Changing Graph Size and Style
    • 23.5.4.1 How to Specify the Size of a Graph at Initial Display
    • 23.5.4.2 How to Provide for Dynamic Resizing of a Graph
    • 23.5.4.3 How to Use a Specific Style Sheet for a Graph
  • 23.5.5 Changing Graph Background, Plot Area, and Title
    • 23.5.5.1 How to Customize the Background and Plot Area of a Graph
    • 23.5.5.2 How to Specify Titles and Footnotes in a Graph
  • 23.5.6 Customizing Graph Axes and Labels
    • 23.5.6.1 How to Specify the Title, Appearance, and Scaling of an Axis
    • 23.5.6.2 How to Control the Appearance of Tick Marks and Labels on an Axis
    • 23.5.6.3 How to Format Numbers on an Axis
    • 23.5.6.4 How to Set the Starting Value of a Y-Axis
  • 23.5.7 Customizing Graph Legends
  • 23.5.8 Customizing Tooltips in Graphs
• 23.6 Customizing the Appearance of Specific Graph Types
  • 23.6.1 Changing the Type of ADF Graphs
  • 23.6.2 Changing the Appearance of Pie Graphs
    • 23.6.2.1 How to Customize the Overall Appearance of Pie Graphs
    • 23.6.2.2 How to Specify an Exploding Pie Slice
  • 23.6.3 Changing the Appearance of Line Graphs
    • 23.6.3.1 How to Display Either Data Lines or Markers in a Line Graph
    • 23.6.3.2 How to Change the Appearance of Lines in a Graph Series
  • 23.6.4 Customizing Pareto Graphs
• 23.7 Adding Specialized Features to Graphs
  • 23.7.1 Adding Reference Lines or Areas to Graphs
    • 23.7.1.1 How to Create Reference Lines or Areas During Design
    • 23.7.1.2 What Happens When You Create Reference Lines or Areas During Design
    • 23.7.1.3 How to Create Reference Lines or Areas Dynamically
  • 23.7.2 Using Gradient Special Effects in Graphs
    • 23.7.2.1 How to Add Gradient Special Effects to a Graph
    • 23.7.2.2 What Happens When You Add a Gradient Special Effect to a Graph
  • 23.7.3 Specifying Transparent Colors for Parts of a Graph
  • 23.7.4 Providing Interactive Capability for Graphs
    • 23.7.4.1 How to Provide Line and Legend Highlighting
    • 23.7.4.2 How to Hide or Show Sets of Related Markers
    • 23.7.4.3 How to React to Changes in the Zoom and Scroll Levels
  • 23.7.5 Providing an Interactive Time Axis for Graphs
    • 23.7.5.1 How to Define a Relative Range of Time Data for Display
    • 23.7.5.2 How to Define an Explicit Range of Time Data for Display

24 Using ADF Gauge Components

• 24.1 Introduction to the ADF Gauge Component
  • 24.1.1 Types of Gauges
  • 24.1.2 Gauge Terminology
• 24.2 Understanding Data Requirements for Gauges
• 24.3 Creating an ADF Gauge
  • 24.3.1 Creating a Gauge Using Tabular Data
    • 24.3.1.1 Storing Tabular Data for a Gauge in a Managed Bean
    • 24.3.1.2 Structure of the List of Tabular Data
  • 24.3.2 How to Create a Gauge Using Tabular Data
  • 24.3.3 What Happens When You Create a Gauge Using Tabular Data
• 24.4 Customizing Common Gauge Features
  • 24.4.1 Changing the Type of the Gauge
  • 24.4.2 Determining the Layout of Gauges in a Gauge Set
  • 24.4.3 Changing Gauge Size and Style
    • 24.4.3.1 How to Specify the Size of a Gauge at Initial Display
    • 24.4.3.2 How to Provide For Dynamic Resizing of a Gauge
    • 24.4.3.3 How to Use a Custom Style Class for a Gauge
  • 24.4.4 Adding Thresholds to Gauges
    • 24.4.4.1 How to Add Static Thresholds to Gauges
    • 24.4.4.2 What You May Need to Know About Adding Thresholds to Gauges
  • 24.4.5 Formatting Numbers in Gauges
    • 24.4.5.1 How to Format the Number in a Gauge Metric Label
    • 24.4.5.2 What Happens When You Format the Number in a Gauge Metric Label
  • 24.4.6 Formatting Text in Gauges
    • 24.4.6.1 How to Format Text in a Gauge Metric Labels
    • 24.4.6.2 What Happens When You Format Text in a Gauge Metric Label
  • 24.4.7 Customizing Gauge Labels
    • 24.4.7.1 How to Control the Position of Gauge Labels
    • 24.4.7.2 How to Customize the Colors and Borders of Gauge Labels
  • 24.4.8 Customizing Indicators and Tick Marks
    • 24.4.8.1 How to Control the Appearance of Gauge Indicators
    • 24.4.8.2 How to Specify Tick Marks and Labels
• 24.5 Customizing Specialized Gauge Features
  • 24.5.1 Using Gradient Special Effects in a Gauge
    • 24.5.1.1 How to Add Gradient Special Effects to a Gauge
    • 24.5.1.2 What Happens When You Add a Gradient Special Effect to a Gauge

25 Using ADF Pivot Table Components

• 25.1 Introduction tothe ADF Pivot Table Component
  • 25.1.1 Pivot Table Elements and Terminology
  • 25.1.2 Drilling Down in a Pivot Table
  • 25.1.3 Pivot Layer Handles
• 25.2 Understanding Data Requirements for a Pivot Table
• 25.3 Sizing in a Pivot Table
  • 25.3.1 How to Set the Overall Size of a Pivot Table
  • 25.3.2 How to Resize Rows and Columns
    • 25.3.2.1 What You May Need to Know About Resizing Rows and Columns
• 25.4 Customizing the Cell Content of a Pivot Table
  • 25.4.1 How to Create a CellFormat Object for a Data Cell
  • 25.4.2 Constructing a CellFormat Object
  • 25.4.3 Changing Format and Text Styles
  • 25.4.4 Creating Stoplight and Conditional Formatting in a Pivot Table

26 Using ADF Geographic Map Components

• 26.1 Introduction toGeographic Maps
  • 26.1.1 Available Map Themes
  • 26.1.2 Geographic Map Terminology
  • 26.1.3 Geographic Map Component Tags
    • 26.1.3.1 Geographic Map Parent Tags
    • 26.1.3.2 Geographic Map Child Tags
    • 26.1.3.3 Tags for Modifying Map Themes
• 26.2 Understanding Data Requirements for Geographic Maps
• 26.3 Customizing the Geographic Map
  • 26.3.1 How to Adjust the Map Size
  • 26.3.2 How to Specify Strategy for Map Zoom Control
• 26.4 Customizing Map Themes
  • 26.4.1 How to Customize Zoom Levels for a Theme
  • 26.4.2 How to Customize the Labels of a Map Theme
  • 26.4.3 How to Customize Map Themes
  • 26.4.4 Customizing Point Images in a Point Theme
    • 26.4.4.1 How to Customize Point Images
    • 26.4.4.2 What Happens When You Customize the Point Images in a Map
  • 26.4.5 Customizing the Bars in a Bar Graph Theme
    • 26.4.5.1 How to Customize the Bars in a Map Bar Graph Theme
    • 26.4.5.2 What Happens When You Customize the Bars in a Map Bar Graph Theme
  • 26.4.6 Customizing the Slices in a Pie Graph Theme
    • 26.4.6.1 How to Customize the Slices in a Map Pie Graph Theme
    • 26.4.6.2 What Happens When You Customize the Slices in a Map Pie Graph Theme
• 26.5 Adding a Toolbar to a Map
  • 26.5.1 How to Add a Toolbar to a Map
  • 26.5.2 What Happens When You Add a Toolbar to a Map

27 Using ADF Gantt Chart Components

• 27.1 Introduction to the ADF Gantt Chart Components
  • 27.1.1 Types of Gantt Charts
  • 27.1.2 Description of Project Gantt Chart Tasks
  • 27.1.3 Main Functional Parts of a Gantt Chart
  • 27.1.4 Relationship Between the Gantt Chart List Region and the Chart Region
• 27.2 Understanding Data Requirements for the Gantt Chart
  • 27.2.1 Data for a Project Gantt Chart
  • 27.2.2 Data for a Resource Utilization Gantt Chart
  • 27.2.3 Data for a Scheduling Gantt Chart
  • 27.2.4 How to Display Data in a Hierarchical List or a Flat List
• 27.3 Navigating in a Gantt Chart
  • 27.3.1 Scrolling the List Region or the Chart Region
  • 27.3.2 How to Navigate to a Specific Date in a Gantt Chart
  • 27.3.3 How to Control the Visibility of Columns in the List Region
• 27.4 Zooming on the Gantt Chart Time Axis
  • 27.4.1 How to Customize Time Axis Settings
  • 27.4.2 How to Zoom In or Zoom Out on a Time Axis
• 27.5 Identifying Nonworking Days in a Gantt Chart
  • 27.5.1 How to Specify Weekdays as Nonworking Days
  • 27.5.2 How to Identify Specific Dates as Nonworking Days
• 27.6 Printing a Gantt Chart
  • 27.6.1 Print Options
  • 27.6.2 Action Listener to Handle the Print Event

Part V Advanced Topics

28 Persisting Component Changes

• 28.1 Introduction to Using Change Persistence
• 28.2 Implementing Session Change Persistence
  • 28.2.1 How to Implement Session Change Persistence
  • 28.2.2 What Happens When You Configure Your Application to Use Change Persistence
  • 28.2.3 What Happens at Runtime
  • 28.2.4 What You May Need to Know About Using Change Persistence on Templates and Regions

29 Adding Drag and Drop Functionality

• 29.1 Introduction to Drag and Drop Functionality
• 29.2 Adding Drag and Drop Functionality for Attributes
• 29.3 Adding Drag and Drop Functionality for Objects
  • 29.3.1 How to Add Drag and Drop Functionality for a Single Object
  • 29.3.2 What Happens at Runtime
  • 29.3.3 What You May Need to Know About Using the ClientDropListener
• 29.4 Adding Drag and Drop Functionality for Collections
  • 29.4.1 How to Add Drag and Drop Functionality for Collections
  • 29.4.2 What You May Need to Know About the dragDropEndListener
• 29.5 Adding Drag and Drop Functionality for Components
  • 29.5.1 How to Add Drag and Drop Functionality for Components

Part VI Appendices

A ADF Faces Configuration

• A.1 Introduction to Configuring ADF Faces
• A.2 Configuration in web.xml
  • A.2.1 How to Configure for JSF and ADF Faces in web.xml
  • A.2.2 What You May Need to Know About Required Elements in web.xml
  • A.2.3 What You May Need to Know About ADF Faces Context Parameters in web.xml
    • A.2.3.1 State Saving
    • A.2.3.2 Debugging
    • A.2.3.3 File Uploading
    • A.2.3.4 Resource Debug Mode
    • A.2.3.5 Change Persistence
    • A.2.3.6 Assertions
    • A.2.3.7 Profiling
    • A.2.3.8 Facelets Support
    • A.2.3.9 Dialog Prefix
    • A.2.3.10 Compression for CSS Class Names
    • A.2.3.11 Test Automation
    • A.2.3.12 UIViewRoot Caching
    • A.2.3.13 Themes and Tonal Styles
    • A.2.3.14 Partial Page Navigation
  • A.2.4 What You May Need to Know About Other Context Parameters in web.xml
• A.3 Configuration in faces-config.xml
  • A.3.1 How to Configure for ADF Faces in faces-config.xml
• A.4 Configuration in adf-config.xml
  • A.4.1 How to Configure ADF Faces in adf-config.xml
• A.5 Configuration in adf-settings.xml
  • A.5.1 How to Configure for ADF Faces in adf-settings.xml
  • A.5.2 What You May Need to Know About Elements in adf-settings.xml
    • A.5.2.1 Help System
• A.6 Configuration in trinidad-config.xml
  • A.6.1 How to Configure ADF Faces Features in trinidad-config.xml
  • A.6.2 What You May Need to Know About Elements in trinidad-config.xml
    • A.6.2.1 Animation Enabled
    • A.6.2.2 Skin Family
    • A.6.2.3 Time Zone and Year
    • A.6.2.4 Enhanced Debugging Output
    • A.6.2.5 Page Accessibility Level
    • A.6.2.6 Language Reading Direction
    • A.6.2.7 Currency Code and Separators for Number Groups and Decimal Points
    • A.6.2.8 Formatting Dates and Numbers Locale
    • A.6.2.9 Output Mode
    • A.6.2.10 Number of Active PageFlowScope Instances
    • A.6.2.11 Custom File Uploaded Processor
    • A.6.2.12 Client-Side Validation and Conversion
• A.7 Configuration in trinidad-skins.xml
• A.8 Using the RequestContext EL Implicit Object

B Message Keys for Converter and Validator Messages

• B.1 Introduction to ADF Faces Default Messages
• B.2 Message Keys and Setter Methods
• B.3 Converter and Validator Message Keys and Setter Methods
  • B.3.1 af:convertColor
  • B.3.2 af:convertDateTime
  • B.3.3 af:convertNumber
  • B.3.4 af:validateByteLength
  • B.3.5 af:validateDateRestriction
  • B.3.6 af:validateDateTimeRange
  • B.3.7 af:validateDoubleRange
  • B.3.8 af:validateLength
  • B.3.9 af:validateRegExp