Bean Data Control in Oracle ADF

Explanation: Data controls are an abstraction provided by ADF Model that enable us to work with data and business services in a declarative manner and easily create UI components.

We use the Bean Data Control type to create Data Controls for Plain Java Objects (POJOs) and JPA-based Java service facade classes.

Requirement: I have a POJO based Java classes and we want to use it as a Data Control to populate data onto an Oracle ADF page. Basically, we want to create a Bean Data Control in Oracle ADF which will help us to play with the data.

Solution: For solution of the above requirement follow the steps as shown below:

Step 1: Create an Oracle ADF Fusion Web Application with the name as BeanDataControlSample. This application should have both the Model project and the ViewController project.

Step 2: Create a StudentDetails POJO class inside the Model Project.

For that right click Model Project > New > From Gallery.

Select Java Class > Click OK

Give the POJO class Name as StudentDetails > Click OK

Step 3: This StudentDetails class represents a Student and captures his details like Name, Date of Birth and Phone Number.

Thus, the complete code for the StudentDetails.java class is as below:

package model;

public class StudentDetails {

    private String name;
    private String phoneNo;
    private String dateOfBirth;

    public StudentDetails() {
        super();
    }

    public StudentDetails(String name, String phoneNo, String dateOfBirth) {
        this.name = name;
        this.phoneNo = phoneNo;
        this.dateOfBirth = dateOfBirth;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setPhoneNo(String phoneNo) {
        this.phoneNo = phoneNo;
    }

    public String getPhoneNo() {
        return phoneNo;
    }

    public void setDateOfBirth(String dateOfBirth) {
        this.dateOfBirth = dateOfBirth;
    }

    public String getDateOfBirth() {
        return dateOfBirth;
    }
}

Similarly, let us create the second POJO class with name as School that holds the list of Students.

package model;

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class School {

    public ArrayList<StudentDetails> student = new ArrayList<StudentDetails>();

    public School() {
        super();
        if (student.size() == 0) {

            student.add(new StudentDetails("Susanto Paul", "6978654537", "04/05/1986"));
            student.add(new StudentDetails("Shobhit Agarwal", "8978654537", "09/09/1988"));
            student.add(new StudentDetails("Moumita Deb", "7978654537", "08/12/1990"));
            student.add(new StudentDetails("Amrita Chakraborty", "9978654537", "02/06/1993"));
            student.add(new StudentDetails("Anjali Paul", "5978654537", "1209/1992"));
        }
    }

    public void setStudent(ArrayList<StudentDetails> student) {
        this.student = student;
    }

    public ArrayList<StudentDetails> getStudent() {
        return student;
    }
}

Step 4: Now right click on School class and select Create Data Control