About Oracle ADF Business Components as Data Controls

If you use Oracle ADF Business Components as your business service technology, your data model components will be exposed in the model layer as Oracle ADF data controls, as shown in the following figure.

The data control palette

1 The application module

This node represents the top-level application module itself (nested application modules are represented by the same icon). Directly under this node, you can find nested application modules, top-level view object instances, and application module&ndashlevel methods.

2 Row sets

These nodes represent row sets&mdashusually view object instances in the data model, but also the row sets returned by view link accessors. In this case, AllDepartments represents a top-level view object instance, DepartmentEmployees represents a detail instance of AllDepartments, and both DeptMgrFkLinkDetail and EmpMgrFkLinkDetail represent the static row sets returned by view link accessors of the same name. For more information on the difference between detail view object instances and static rowsets returned by view link accessors, see the related topics list.

3 Attributes

These nodes represent individual view object attributes.

4 Standard operations

These nodes represent standard row set&ndashlevel operations. The application module has similar nodes that represent transaction-level operations. The operations available for a rowset include previous set and next set, which scroll through the rowset based on range size. For more information, see the related topics list.

5 Special navigation operations

These nodes allow you to set the row set's current row to a particular displayed row.

6 Custom method

Exported custom service methods will appear on the Data Control Palette.