Oracle ADF : Consuming Web Service to drive data to UI

The context of this post on Oracle ADF is SOA to ADF integration or Consuming Web Service by creating a Web Service Data Control to display data on UI Page, it’s your take, anyway!

To get our hands dirty, let’s get started with following
ü  Jdeveloper IDE  (11.1.1.7.0)

ü  Oracle DB XE 11G (Up & Running!)

ü  WL Servers 10.3.6 (Up & Running!)

ü  Internet Explorer 10 (10.0.9200.16384)

[Remember, I asked you to take down the WSDL URL in my previous post, that’s right! We are going to use the same WSDL URL & the SOA application deployed earlier is Active on WLS.]

Here it goes,
Ø  Create an ADF application.

Ø  Open up New gallery from Model Project to create a Web Service Data Control as displayed below.

 
Ø  To the invoked popup, specify a Name & WSDL URL which we noted down earlier.
 
Ø  Click “Next” to Shuttle the data control operation & move on.
 
Ø  Ignore or leave the defaults for Response Format, End Point Authentication and finish it.

Ø  Observe the Data Controls palette of JDev to find the newly added one.

 
Ø  Create a JSPX page, drag and drop the parameter as Input Text, the method as Execute operation and the data binding under the return type as Read-Only Table. Customize the page design of your choice.

Ø  The resembling page structure looks like as depicted below.

 
Ø  Deploy the application to a web logic server and test upon successful compilation.

Ø  Run the jspx page by adding “/faces/Pages/EmployeeSearch.jspx” to the URL context root as displayed in the log below.

 
 
Ø  Enter the empID value as “100”, click on “Search” button to see the output as below.

Comments

  1. Seshagiri Rao KBMay 5, 2014, 12:12:00 PM

    Hi Ajith,

    Nice explanation.
    ]
    Let me know how do we develop asynchronous web services in ADF using Data control or by any other means. Let me know if ADF data control uses JAX-WS as the client.

    Regards,
    Seshagiri

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