Build web and mobile apps quickly with Oracle Visual Builder and delve into real-time end-to-end use cases, exploring best practices, recommendations, security, and debugging techniques

Key Features

• Execute various real-time use cases and develop web and mobile applications quickly
• Enhance your skills by extending Oracle and non-Oracle SaaS applications using VB
• Gain the knowledge needed to take on projects directly and work independently

Book Description

Organizations are moving their applications, data, and processes to the cloud to reduce application costs, effort, and maintenance. However, adopting new technology poses challenges for developers, solutions architects, and designers due to a lack of knowledge and appropriate practical training resources. This book helps you get to grips with Oracle Visual Builder (VB) and enables you to quickly develop web and mobile applications and deploy them to production without hassle.

This book will provide you with a solid understanding of VB so that you can adopt it at a faster pace and start building applications right away. After working with real-time examples to learn about VB, you'll discover how to design, develop, and deploy web and mobile applications quickly. You'll cover all the VB components in-depth, including web and mobile application development, business objects, and service connections. In order to use all these components, you'll also explore best practices, security, and recommendations, which are well explained within the chapters. Finally, this book will help you gain the knowledge you need to enhance the performance of an application before deploying it to production.

By the end of this book, you will be able to work independently and deploy your VB applications efficiently and with confidence.

What you will learn

• Get started with VB and explore its architecture and basic building blocks
• Gain a clear understanding of business objects and learn how to manage them
• Create service connections to connect to the external API and Oracle SaaS
• Build web and mobile apps and run them on various devices
• Develop Oracle Cloud and non-Oracle SaaS app extensions
• Get to grips with data and application security using practical examples
• Explore best practices along with troubleshooting and debugging mechanisms
• Connect your VB application with VBS for application versioning using Git

Who this book is for

This book is for IT professionals working with UI technologies to develop web and mobile applications for various industries. Developers and UI designers who want to understand how to use VB, develop scalable web and mobile applications using drag-and-drop features, and design applications in a better way with the help of real-time example apps and code samples will find this book helpful. Prior experience in any UI technology, JavaScript, and REST APIs will be useful.

Table of Contents

1. What, Why, and How (WWH) of Visual Builder
2. Provisioning and Understanding the Visual Builder Instance
3. Exploring Visual Builder Ingredients
4. Creating and Managing Business Objects
5. Creating and Managing Service Connections
6. Building Web Application Using Real World Examples
7. Working with Life Cycle Events, Validations, and UI Logic
8. Exploring Other Visual Components and Their Advanced Functionalities
9. Extending Oracle and Non-Oracle SaaS Applications
10. Working with Business Processes
11. Building a Mobile Application with Live Examples
12. Securing VB Applications
13. Understanding and Managing Various Stages of a VB App
14. Best Practices and Recommendations for VB Applications
15. Troubleshooting and Debugging VB Applications
16. Managing VB Apps Using Visual Builder Studio

About the Author

Ankur Jain is passionate about learning new technologies and exploring new things on his own. He has worked on a number of different technology stacks, including Oracle OIC, VB, API Platform, Oracle SOA, OSB, WebCenter Content, and Java. He has implemented various projects on Oracle Integration and the Visual Builder.

He has earned various prestigious awards and recognition from different groups and communities, including Oracle’s elite Oracle ACE program. He has become a spotlight member of the Oracle Cloud community, UKOUG has published an article in PTK issue number 73, the tech edition, he is OIC certified, and has been selected as a speaker to present a paper at the Groundbreakers Yatra, organized by AIOUG.

He is a prolific blogger and YouTuber, helping thousands of users to learn.