About Databound UIX Pages

JDeveloper provides the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) that implements many of the J2EE design patterns for interactive Model 2-style applications. One of the central features in Oracle ADF is a data binding layer that uses a standard declarative way to bind data from a business service, such as web services, EJB, JavaBeans, and Oracle ADF Business Components, to UI components, such as UIX components and standard HTML elements.

To create UIX pages that handle page navigation within the pages (Model 1), the recommended approach is to work with the Data Control Palette and design the page using databound UI components provided by the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) bindings. See Working with the Oracle Application Development Framework for details about the Oracle ADF data controls and the design time support for working with web pages and data controls in JDeveloper.

When you create Model 1 style ADF UIX pages for Oracle ADF:

Your pages work with the Oracle ADF data controls to access any supported business service, including ADF Business Components.
Your application uses the Oracle ADF lifecycle to provide the "hooks" needed to connect the action of a UIX page to the business service.
You can work with the Data Control Palette to quickly assemble databound web pages. See Inserting UI Components Using the Data Control Palette.

See Creating a Model 1 Style Web Page with Oracle ADF.

To create databound UIX pages that rely on the Struts controller for page navigation (Model 2):

You can work with the Struts Page Flow Modeler to visual create page flows using the Oracle ADF Data Action to provide the data binding context
You can work with the Data Control Palette to quickly assemble databound web pages. See Inserting UI Components Using the Data Control Palette.

See Creating a Struts-based Web Application with Oracle ADF.

Note: BC4J UIX XML tags (tags with the bc4j: prefix) are still supported in JDeveloper 10g. You can run existing pages containing these tags, and you can add new tags to your pages from the component palette. The recommended approach for developing new UIX pages, however, is to use UIX XML; and to create databound UIX pages the recommended approach is to use Expression Language (EL) in your UIX XML pages. If you add components to a new UIX page using ADF databinding and the Data Control Palette, you are automatically using the new, recommended tags. Note that you cannot mix deprecated and new-style tags in a single page.